Chapter 30: The Unwed Wife of the Favored Son of Heaven (Part 10)
Xie Yibai didn’t stay long before he left again. Yu Lin sat under the window, looking at the male lead’s plotline, which was locked for purchase.
The plotline could not be purchased, which meant that in the script, this was something that had to happen.
A long time ago, when Yu Lin had discovered this, he had already prepared himself, but he hadn’t expected it to be so soon.
On the sixth day after Xie Yibai left, he suddenly woke up in a rainy night.
The rain was pouring down, and a muffled thunder struck a tree in the city, creating a flashing spark.
The unusual weather woke many people up. The flames from the thunder spread, and in the continuous clamor, a rapid knocking on the window sounded in the dark night.
Yu Lin got up to light a lamp, put on his clothes, and pushed open the window. He saw Yu Zhen standing under the window with a saber in her hand, her expression solemn.
Seeing him come out, Yu Zhen shook her head, and a torrential rain was behind her.
The bamboo hat on her head was wet from the rain. She pressed her lips together, her fingers lightly gripping the side of the window, and said in a deep voice, “Young Lady, something has happened.”
Yu Lin’s fingertips, which were pushing open the window, paused. He looked at her intently, and after a few seconds, he turned and went back into the room.
Half an hour later, Yu Lin came out in a tight-fitting suit, his long hair tied high, and a sword in his hand. Without saying much, he and Yu Zhen set off on a flying boat.
The flying boat was sturdy, and it broke through the layers of rain, traveling through the night sky, and a dim yellow light lit up.
Yu Zhen sat at the bow of the boat, her brow tightly furrowed, her mind heavy. She slowly told Yu Lin what had happened these past few days.
“Something’s not right. It’s too fast.” she said.
She said that after she had arrived at Yanyan Mountain, in order not to attract attention or alarm others, she had not gone to the Yu family’s camp.
She had mixed in with the ordinary disciples, and because there were many of them, no one had noticed.
The team to suppress Yanyan Mountain came from different immortal sect families, and their forces were intertwined. Although there had been occasional turmoil, with Xie Yibai suppressing it, it had always been peaceful.
Yu Zhen sat on the flying boat, her expression cold and solemn, and said in a low voice, “In Yanyan Mountain, Younger Martial Uncle Xie’s reputation is extremely high. He is the leader of this demon-slaying trip, and all the disciples listen to his orders.”
However, even such a prestigious Xie Yibai had run into trouble.
As Yu Zhen spoke, she looked forward and found that the young lady’s features were quiet, clean and cold. In men’s clothes, sitting in the dim yellow warm light, she actually had the elegance of a young master from a noble family.
Yu Lin listened carefully, his arm resting lightly on the cabin. Hearing her, his eyelids lifted slightly, and he asked, “And then?”
Yu Zhen was stunned for a moment and couldn’t help but soften her voice. “But three days ago, for some reason, a rumor suddenly spread that Younger Martial Uncle Xie was secretly colluding with the demons.”
Yu Zhen frowned. “Nonsense. Younger Martial Uncle Xie has killed countless demons in the nineteen states. Some people dare to spread this, but no one is willing to believe it.”
“Therefore,” Yu Zhen pressed her lips together, “before we attacked, everything was very calm. Now that I think about it, some people were already holding back at that time, and they actually had ill intentions.”
Things had been stable until the day they had attacked Yanyan Mountain, when things had taken a sharp turn for the worse.
“Now that I think about it, some people had planned it this way before we attacked.” Yu Zhen pressed her lips together, her features shining in the dark night, her aura pressing.
She said, “The formation is complete, and the evil cultivators and the living corpses they have refined are all suppressed in the valley. When we attacked, they were already prepared to fight to the death with the immortal sects, their hatred bone-deep, and they would not rest until they were dead.”
Yu Zhen said, “A disciple went forward and was immediately killed. Both sides were in a frenzy. What was strange was that the evil cultivators’ fighting spirit was pressing, but it was not as destructive as the rumors said. Instead, it was more like… self-preservation. And when everyone attacked a certain position, their reaction was intense, and they desperately tried to stop them, which was quite tragic.”
“Younger Martial Uncle Xie had already noticed that something was wrong at that time. Looking at the tragic situation on the field, which had suddenly become a frenzy, he wanted to stop it, but it was already too late.”
“More than two hundred evil cultivators were killed on the spot, and only three wounded were left, one leader, who was seriously injured and captured.”
“Then we walked to the place they were desperately protecting and found that it was actually a village… the people in the village were neither human nor ghost, and they had been invaded by demonic energy and had undergone some changes, but they still retained their consciousness… they were all old women and children.”
Yu Zhen’s voice softened.
She said, “Someone immediately raised his sword to kill them, but was stopped by Younger Martial Uncle Xie, who had noticed that something was wrong.”
These old women and children were full of demonic energy, but they were very much alive and had their consciousness. Were they still human? Did they really deserve to die? No one knew.
However, the great battle was imminent, and this sword that Xie Yibai had blocked was no different from poking a hornet’s nest.
Beside them were the bodies of their companions, and many immortal sect disciples were already in a frenzy at that time.
Someone immediately questioned why Xie Yibai had stopped them. Why had Xie Yibai stopped them from killing the demons! Could it be that, as the rumors said, Xie Yibai was colluding with the demons?
At that time, the ground was full of bodies. The questioning disciple’s face was covered in blood, and his questions were pressing, and every word was full of tears.
What was even more coincidental was that after the evil cultivator leader was captured alive, he was as unyielding as iron and would rather die than submit.
Hearing this, he had laughed.
He had first mocked the immortal sect disciples for being hypocritical, for saying that they were eliminating demons and defending the Dao, but which demons were they eliminating, and what kind of Dao were they defending?
He said that they had also been just a small village in the past, and they had just been ordinary people in the village.
One year, a demon had occupied their village and had used the people of their village as food. The people of the village had been forced to be filled with demonic energy and to cultivate evil methods to survive. For many years, they had lived in a corner and had never had the heart to harm anyone.
Later, the righteous sects had eliminated the demon, but they had also wanted to kill them. They had chased them to the ends of the earth and had not let them go. What had they done wrong?
In the end, of the hundred or so people in the village, half of whom were women and children, they had actually been saved by an evil cultivator and a demon cultivator, and had been settled down.
After saying this, he frowned, but then he looked at Xie Yibai, and after a long while, he was slightly stunned.
He seemed to be quite shocked, and in a great daze, he asked a strange question, “You… how old are you? Where is your home? With your appearance, could you be our… little benefactor?”
Their village had been saved by a couple in the past. At that time, the woman was already pregnant with their child.
He had not been out in the world for many years and was very confused. “But if it’s you, how could you have turned to cultivating immortal sect techniques? Your parents are the only good people in this world. Why are you with these hypocritical people?”
For a hundred years, there had only been one story of an evil cultivator and a demon cultivator in the rumors of the immortal sects. However, the people in the story were not heroes.
They were traitors who had betrayed their sect and slaughtered their entire sect, and they were a disaster full of evil.
Seeing that he really seemed to be familiar with Xie Yibai, the rumors around them gradually began to go wrong.
Some people began to whisper about Xie Yibai’s background, about why Xie Yibai had not acted, if he was really of evil cultivator bloodline, and about the rumors of these days.
This level of suppression was originally a trial for the young disciples. The elders were not present, and everyone was suppressing them. One thing led to another, and it was as if they were going to force Xie Yibai to his death.
At this time, even if the evil cultivators tried to argue that they had been living in a corner for decades and had not been causing trouble as the immortal sect families had said, no one would believe them.
When the kind-faced recluse of Daze came out from behind the team of the Guiyi Mountain Villa and asked Xie Yibai to die with a gentle smile, Xie Yibai’s expression was calm. He looked up at him and actually smiled. “Are you sure you can kill me?”
Only today did he understand that such a large-scale operation, which had gathered all the disciples of the immortal sects here, and his background had been exposed in front of everyone, was not to catch all the evil cultivators, but to catch him, Xie Yibai.
In front of everyone, after the demons, it was obviously too smooth and not right. Knowing that his personality was serious, they had guided him to protect the evil cultivators. Someone had designed this, and they had not intended for him to live.
The recluse of Daze had white hair and a kind face. Hearing this, he just said placidly, “Your parents are Chan Nü and Yu Daozi. Perhaps you have heard of them, but you have not seen them.”
He said, “The Demon-suppressing Talisman is here, and the formation is complete. Xie Yibai, you have the bloodline of a demon spirit and should not have been allowed to live in this world. Twenty years ago, when Qingming took you away, I said that you would surely die today.”
“No.”
But Xie Yibai was not flustered. Ding Canghai’s sword light was buzzing. He stood under the dim daylight, smiled, and said placidly, “You’re wrong.”
He said, “I have seen them.”
I have seen my parents, in the spring.
The evil cultivator leader had been avoiding the world for many years and did not care about worldly affairs. Hearing the conversation between the two of them become more and more wrong, only now did he realize what he had said.
He looked at Xie Yibai, who was trapped in the formation, and his eyes were red with killing intent. He immediately went to his death for him.
But it was already too late.
Everyone had heard clearly.
It turned out that Xie Yibai was the greatest sin in this world.
There was a great uproar.
Yu Zhen was hidden outside the crowd at that time and vaguely felt that something was wrong. Looking at the almost out-of-control scene, she thought for a moment, left a defensive magical artifact, and hurried back.
She had passed the news to Yu Lin, but she didn’t know what to do.
A flash of lightning lit up the night sky, and in a moment, the rain became heavier, and a muffled thunder flashed.
After Yu Lin finished listening, his eyelashes drooped slightly, and he pressed his lips together without a word. He gently picked up the long sword by his knee, which was as clear as autumn water.
Then he stood up, and the flying boat cut through the darkness and sailed in an unknown direction.
In Yanyan Mountain.
Xie Yibai had fought a bloody battle for a day, and his white clothes were stained red. He was hiding in the mountain, and behind him were a group of terrified old women and children.
The people searching for him were all over the mountain. He held Ding Canghai in his arms, and with the burden, he still had the leisure to lift his eyelids slightly and glance in the direction of Jiangnan.
After breaking the formation with all his might and fleeing for a day, he had encountered the people led by the recluse of Daze at night. The seriously injured Xie Yibai could only smile helplessly and lament that his luck was average.
His expression was cold, and he was planning to fight to the death, but the next second, he was slightly stunned.
He felt that the jade pendant hanging from his waist was slightly hot.
A few years ago, Yu Lin’s health was not good. When Xie Yibai was away, he was always restless, so he had searched everywhere for warm jade, carefully designed it, and had someone make a pair of magical artifacts.
So that even from a thousand miles away, he could know the news of his unwed wife and not worry too much.
However, at this moment, this magical artifact was transmitting temperature to him in reverse, as if it were predicting something.
Xie Yibai’s expression paused. As if he had sensed something, he looked up slightly and saw that under a dim yellow light in the night sky, his unwed wife was on a flying boat, her features quiet, her figure tall and slender, and she had come from afar from Lingyang City.
He was in a tight-fitting suit, and the long sword in his hand was as clear as autumn water, and it was flashing with a cold sword intent. He was in a standoff in mid-air with the recluse of Daze, who had white hair and a serious expression.
The recluse of Daze had sacrificed a magical artifact and looked at him with surprise and uncertainty. He asked him which Daoist friend he was, and why he was stopping him from carrying out justice for heaven, and said in a deep voice that Xie Yibai had the bloodline of a demon and must die today, otherwise there would be endless trouble.
Hearing this, Yu Lin just stood in front of the boat, turned his head slightly, and quietly looked at Xie Yibai, who was covered in blood and was staring at him in a daze under the night. Then he drew his own sword.
The immortal sect families could not have imagined it, and no one could have imagined it.
Xie Yibai’s unwed wife, with a weak body and average aptitude, who seemed to be an inconspicuous person in the immortal sects, except for her good personality, was actually an unparalleled sword genius.
He had actually swung such a sword.
One sword had shattered the thirty-six soul-locking nails that were aimed at Xie Yibai, one sword had forced the recluse of Daze back three hundred miles, and one sword had cut off Xie Yibai’s path to death.
He had swung a sword in the demon-infested forest of Yanyan Mountain.
One sword had shaken the world.
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