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CHAPTER XXXVIII. A Conviction, A Surprise to Heaven and Earth
His face was pale as a sheet, and his forehead was oozing layers of sweat. The blood at the corner of his mouth had yet to dry, and his hands were powerlessly supporting himself on the chair. It was as if he had experienced a fierce battle of equal strength, or as if he was just beginning to recover from a serious illness.
Candle Jiu Yin's breathing could vaguely detect the light footsteps of Jin Si Jin Si. He quickly wiped away the blood on the corner of his mouth and did his best to sit upright. He casually picked up a fan and pretended as if nothing had happened. Jin Si walked in with a bowl of broth in his hand. He stared at Zhu Jiuyin and said softly, ”Master, you've been feeling the cold recently. Jin Si cooked a bowl of lotus seed silver ear soup to drive away the cold.”
After looking at her for a moment, Candle Jiu slowly said, ”Oh, you've troubled yourself. Just leave it here.”
Jin Si felt a little surprised. Normally, his master would be cold and indifferent towards him. Why was he so polite today? He was not used to it. He smiled and said, ”Jin Si should be doing this. Does master have any other orders?”
Candle Jiu Yin only wanted to quickly put aside her thoughts so that she wouldn't see through any flaws after a while. His gaze shifted as he casually said, ”The materials for the embroidered clothes haven't been prepared yet, the weather has been good in the recent days. You should go to the Qing Qiu mountain to gather some fresh air.”
Xin Jin's face lit up with joy. He felt that the God of Happiness had arrived. He didn't know why his master's attitude had become so good today. He was so excited. He nodded vigorously, ”Yes, Jinsi understands. Jinsi will go now.” With that, he leisurely left the room with an indescribable joy and excitement.
Once again, Zhu Jiuyin sat paralyzed in his seat, as if he had suddenly exhausted all of his internal energy. His body had suffered some kind of heavy injury, his face kept twitching, and his chest was in extreme pain.
Perhaps what he was experiencing was just a perfect conspiracy in the dark, a shifter in a struggle for power, or a song that would end with a sad song. All of this was a secret he had buried deep in his heart and no one knew.
The most important thing for him to do now was to quickly recover his body so that the Devil Ancestor would not be able to see through any flaws in it. As he thought this, he began to recover his internal energy.
In the Qing Qiu mountain range, the snow had yet to fall and the sun was just beginning to shimmer.
It turned out that the clear air of the beginning of time had attracted her attention. She saw that the misty air was faint and transparent, and she then pulled out a transparent bottle of demon heart from her sleeve. Opening the bottle, she slowly absorbed the airflow into the bottle.
Gu Xueluo, who was standing far away, was pleasantly surprised and curious at the same time. She then asked in a clear voice, ”Lady's skills are quite good. May I ask what's the use of collecting all this mist?”
Xin Jinsi was startled by the sudden voice. He turned to look at Gu Xueluo, who was quiet, elegant, and graceful. Seeing that she was also a girl, he suddenly lost his wariness and smiled, ”This is not just any normal air. It's called the beginning of snow, beautiful in texture and light in spirit. It's an excellent material for making magic robes.”
Upon hearing the word 'demon robe', Gu Xue immediately decided that this person should be from the demon realm, but the intelligent girl in front of her didn't seem like a demon disciple, so she curiously asked: ”So lady is from the demon realm, is this fog really that magical? Can she even weave a demon robe?”
”My name is Xin Jin Si, I'm the servant girl of the Demon World's You Leng Palace.”
Gu Xueluo noticed a group of bluebirds in the sky glance at them and scattered in all directions. She was startled, this bluebird was originally used to communicate with the twelve pots of four cities in emergency situations. With so many bluebirds flying in all directions, could it be that something happened to Taixuan? Thinking up to here, an ominous premonition flashed through Gu Xueluo's mind. She quickly bid farewell to Jin Si and flew back to Supreme Mystery City.
Something big had happened!
Surviving little deity returning to the Immortal World in the Kunlun Ruins, Li Jiu Huan was enraged. She stood up and said in shock, ”What? Even the Supreme Mystery has the guts to brazenly commit a monstrous sin! ”
He still could not believe that the fifth Concealed Spirit was the murderer, but the Left Holy Envoy Yang Mingfei had passed away. This was his most beloved and treasured immortal, and he had brought her back to the Immortal Realm from the cliff at the Jade Wall Mountain in the mortal world. He had then carefully groomed her to become a Left Holy Envoy, to help her become an immortal, but now all of his efforts had been for naught.
It was terrifyingly quiet in the Blue Sky Palace, filled with a murderous aura. The fifth hidden spirit knelt on the ground, his body curled up, his hair was in disarray, his head was lowered, his face ashen, his clothes were stained with blood, and he was still holding onto his Green Hidden Sword.
Gu Xueluo rushed to the Spirit Shadow's side and asked with concern, ”Hidden Spirit, what's wrong? Why are you so unwell? Can't you stand up and tell Elder Yin anything?” Her words were extremely clever. On one hand, she saved the hidden spirit from both fire and water. On the other hand, she wanted to make the hidden spirit stand up, but the hidden spirit remained unmoving and remained kneeling on the ground.
Yin Baoyun's face was filled with worry as he coldly said, ”Ask him yourself. See what good deed he has done!”
”It's him. His demonic nature erupted and he killed many disciples of the Immortal World, Devil Realm, Demon Realm and Supreme Profound Capital. He is truly cruel to the extreme.” A low, hoarse voice, filled with fear and restlessness, came from the corner of the hall. Gu Xueluo looked over and saw a heavily injured disciple lying on a mat in the corner. The meridians in the disciple's four limbs were all broken and there were a few wounds on his upper body that were pierced by sword rays.
Of course, he didn't believe that all of this was real. He gazed at the disciple for a long time, and then said, ”The person you identified was the Sage Su from Taixuan. I'm afraid that you were captivated by his fear, and what you saw was not real.”
The disciple panicked and tried his best to argue, ”I'm not the only one who saw it. The survivors from the Demonic World and Immortal World also saw it with their own eyes …” Obviously, this disciple had clearly recounted every single word about the tragedy that had occurred in the Hundred Miles Bamboo Forest. Although his description was very clear, it still left everyone feeling suspicious. No one believed that a hidden spirit could do such a thing.