CHAPTER 840: CHAPTER 844: MASTER’S STRENGTH (22)

The one who infiltrated the Wuwei Sect is one of the Twelve Demon Lords of the Demon Path, Lord Sha Ming.

It seems there was something wrong with their body, otherwise their presence wouldn’t have been so easily discovered by the Sect Leader.

A Demon Lord of the Demon Path, equivalent to a cultivator in the Divinity Transformation Stage, is evenly matched with the Sect Leader.

For such a Demon Lord to sneak into a reputable sect clearly indicates a grand scheme. The Sect Leader dared not let his guard down, and just as he was about to severely injure the demon, Leng Piaopiao suddenly rushed out in tears.

The rest, everyone knows.

Fortunately, Su Xuan had placed a Divine Sense on Leng Piaopiao, tracking her presence, and quickly intercepted the two halfway.

Leng Piaopiao, besides suffering a slight injury and looking somewhat dispirited, was not seriously harmed.

From the occurrence until Lord Changli personally intervened to rescue the young disciple from Lord Sha Ming’s grasp and severely injure the demon, a whole three days had passed.

Lord Sha Ming used a Secret Technique to escape, and Su Xuan did not pursue further.

In such circumstances, the opponent would either be dead or crippled.

This incident led to the matter of Leng Piaopiao having to reflect at Contemplation Cliff being dismissed.

Leng Piaopiao silently followed behind Su Xuan back to the Wuwei Sect.

Watching the back of her Master striding ahead, the grievance and fear in Leng Piaopiao’s heart almost overwhelmed her.

She had been holding it in until she was rescued by her Master from the demon’s hands.

"Wuwuwu....." Su Xuan’s back stiffened, abruptly halting his forward stride. But he held himself back from turning around or speaking.

Leng Piaopiao squatted on the ground, hugging her knees, sobbing bitterly. Towards the end, her sobs were punctuated by hiccups, with the words caught in her throat.

She looked wistfully at the figure she was infatuated with, saying pitifully and intermittently, "I, I....I thought I would never see you again, Master....."

Seeing Su Xuan unmoved, Leng Piaopiao stubbornly questioned, "Master, will you always remain distant from me?"

"Will you... abandon me?"

The fingers at Su Xuan’s side twitched slightly, and ultimately, he sighed deeply and said, "If I were truly going to abandon you, why would I personally rescue you?"

"You are my only disciple...."

Unwillingly, Leng Piaopiao asked, "Just a disciple? Don’t you have any feelings for....?"

Once hidden feelings are revealed, expressing them again is no longer difficult.

In Su Xuan’s eyes, at this moment, the soft little disciple was uncharacteristically pressuring him, leaving him in an awkward position.

He didn’t want to hurt his little disciple, but neither did he wish for her to remain stubbornly ignorant, yet it placed him in a difficult situation.

"The only one I like is my wife...."

"No, impossible, you’re just saying that to make me give up, aren’t you?" Leng Piaopiao shook her head, denying frantically.

How could Master possibly like that woman? It’s absolutely impossible.

Leng Piaopiao seemed to be both contradicting Su Xuan and explaining to herself, speaking rapidly, "No, you definitely don’t like Su Li."

"If you liked her, why did you throw her to the Sect Leader without a care when you first brought her to the mountain?"

"If you liked her, why didn’t you form a Daoist couple with her and let her suffer ridicule and disdain?"

"If you liked her, you wouldn’t always side with me and reprimand her."

"Due to your indifferent attitude towards her, she struggled within the sect, even outer disciples could easily ridicule her. You always knew about her situation in the sect, so how could you bear it if you truly cared? While I scraped a hand, you would personally apply medicine for me, and when Su Li got into disputes and was sometimes injured due to having no cultivation, you would turn a blind eye."

"With so many differences, do you dare claim you like her and not me?"

The more Leng Piaopiao spoke, the more she felt that her Master liked her, otherwise, why would he treat her so well.

"Did she really suffer so much injustice in the sect?" Su Xuan clutched his heart, feeling an excruciating twist.

She was the wife acknowledged by the God Transformation Daoist, how could she endure so many hardships? He didn’t know, he truly didn’t know.

Upon hearing her Master’s voice, Leng Piaopiao instinctively raised her head, but was suddenly frightened.

"Master, what’s wrong, don’t scare me," Leng Piaopiao said with a sobbing tone.

At this moment, Su Xuan’s appearance was truly terrifying, like an Evil Ghost crawling out of Hell, his blood-red eyes menacing and fearful.

Su Xuan didn’t hear a word from his little disciple; his mind echoed only with Leng Piaopiao’s words.

It turned out that everything he thought she had lived well was a sham. All her suffering was his doing.

He hadn’t deliberately said anything, thinking everyone knew. His esteemed position meant Su Li, as his wife, would only be cherished rather than troubled.

He was good to his disciple because she was like a daughter to him, and Su Li, as his wife, should empathize with him.

Yet sometimes he was harsh and severe because he.....

Su Xuan found countless excuses for himself but couldn’t resist the fact that he had hurt the other party.

In his muddled state, he suddenly realized, was it because of this that she decided to leave?

All those things he couldn’t understand before suddenly became clear, the fog lifted, revealing the raw and cruel truth.

He remembered that night, their wedding night, lying side by side, he decided in his heart to be good to her for a lifetime.

The gentle girl had a special place in his heart, otherwise, after accomplishing his cultivation, he would not have insisted on bringing her back. But... what had he done all these years....

On Su Xuan’s icy face, a tear of blood suddenly trickled from his eye, and he spat a mouthful of Heart Blood, with a black spiritual seal flickering on his forehead.

Seeing Su Xuan’s all-black pupils, Leng Piaopiao’s heart momentarily stopped beating.

He has fallen into the demon....

Her master had fallen into the demon.

No longer caring about anything else, Leng Piaopiao decisively sent a message to the Sect Leader. Fortunately, they were right at the foot of the Wuwei Sect’s Mountain Gate at this time.

In the blink of an eye, the Sect Leader, together with other elders from the sect, arrived instantaneously.

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The Sect Leader and the other elders within the sect joined forces to completely dispel the demonic qi from Lord Changli, yet the Heart Demon was already born. Besides Changli overcoming it himself, there was no other way.

With his consciousness restored to clarity, Su Xuan was dejected, the frost on his face thicker.

The first thing he said upon waking up was, "Revoke the arrest warrant for Su Li."

The Sect Leader’s previous suspicions were confirmed. Over the years, he watched Changli grow silent over Su Li’s departure and realized maybe what they had believed wasn’t right all along.

The other elders looked at each other; hadn’t Lord Changli always been in seclusion? How was he now outside and gave birth to a Heart Demon, almost falling into a devil’s trap?

Nonetheless, seeing the Sect Leader, who knew the details, unwilling to explain, and Changli closing his eyes in silence, the other elders wordlessly took their leave one by one.