Chapter 61: The Truth Revealed
Seeing Li Yuanxiao angry, Chao Zhongwei's heart was empty. Although he had already thought about his future rhetoric when he decided to kill Zhang Bohuai's master and apprentice, he didn't expect Li Yuanxiao to come to him so soon. He was flustered in his heart, but he still tried his best to hide it on the surface, and said with a smile: "Sect Master, I don't know where the disciple makes you angry?"
Li Yuanxiao snorted coldly: "You killed Zhang Bohuai, and destroyed the corpse, when I don't know?"
Chao Zhongwei panicked even more, and thought to himself: "Could it be that he saw Zhang Bohuai when he killed him? Impossible, if he saw it at that time, he would have come out to trouble me, how could he have waited until now? Could it be that he was seen by others? No, when others saw it, they should have told the Poison Refining Sect Master Peng Xinwei first, right, how could they tell the irrelevant Taiqing Sect Master? Or, Zhang Bohuai was not dead? But Peng Xinwei personally said that Zhang Bohuai's body was gnawed by dragon maggots in the worm pit and there was only a skeleton left...... In an instant, several thoughts flashed through Chao Zhongwei's mind, but they were all denied by himself one by one. As a last resort, he had to continue to pretend to be stupid: "Sect Master said that I laughed, I heard that Zhang Bohuai was killed by the enemy, so I rushed from Muzhou to the Poison Refining Sect to visit." Besides, Zhang Bohuai has been my friend for many years, how could I kill him? There must be some misunderstanding in this......
"Misunderstanding? Could it be that you took these people to slaughter my daughter and son-in-law Quanzhuang back then?
Chao Zhongwei didn't want to believe that Li Yuanxiao knew about it so quickly. Despite the apprehension in his heart, he still did a lot of work on the surface, and a surprised expression immediately appeared on his face: "Sect Master, where is this, how could I do such a thing?" Then, he said very sadly, "I also heard about the tragedy of Ling Yan back then, and the murderer really exterminated humanity. I am a disciple of the Tianyun Sect, a righteous path sect, and I will never do such a thing that hurts the heavens and harms reason. Besides, just by relying on the relationship between Ling Yan and the Taiqing Sect, I don't dare to be so bold and reckless. Speaking of this, Chao Zhongwei seemed to have suddenly realized, "The sect master must have misbelieved the villain's slander, that shameless villain must have framed me like this in order to provoke the relationship between the two sects of Taiqing and Tianyun, and the sect master must not be deceived by him." In the end, Chao Zhongwei said solemnly: "Sect Master, please bring the villain who framed me to confront me face to face, and wait for me to be innocent!"
I have to say that Chao Zhongwei is too good at pretending, the four demeanors of surprise, pain, realization, and righteousness are connected smoothly and naturally, and the four tones of asking, sighing, anxious, and angry are not pretentious. If it weren't for Li Yuanxiao's heart, I'm afraid he would really be fooled by him.
"The 'villain' you are talking about is none other than your friend Zhang Bohuai! When I was at the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference, he had already told me that Wen Hua Yupei was obtained from you. Li Yuanxiao took out the Wenhua jade pendant from his arms, the milky white jade pendant swayed gently in the wind, and the Bilangya in it glowed slightly green, "This Wenhua jade pendant is my daughter's personal jewelry, which I personally hung on her neck back then, where did you get it?"
Chao Zhongwei was actually waiting for Li Yuanxiao to mention Wen Huayupei's matter, so that he could push the boat to implement his plan to plant the sputation. "Sect Master, I did give Zhang Bohuai's disciple a piece of jade pendant, but it is definitely not this Wenhua jade pendant, just an ordinary green mango jade pendant, as a birthday gift. Wen Hua Yu Pei, I have never seen it before. ”
"That's enough, don't quibble! Today you admit it or not, you all go to the other world to atone for your sins to my daughter and son-in-law!" Li Yuanxiao's patience has been exhausted, and he raised the Chengying Sword with a "puff", the sword is full of blue light, and the raindrops hit the sword body, making a slight sound of "dingding".
Mi Junliang and Fan Yuteng were already trembling with fear, and they quietly moved their steps, ready to escape. Sima Kong still stood calmly, staring at Li Yuanxiao.
Chao Zhongwei said in a great voice: "Senior Brother Fan, Senior Brother Mi, don't want to escape, we were framed, our hearts are open, but we can't tell if we escape!" In fact, with their cultivation, it is estimated that they will not be able to escape five steps in front of Li Yuanxiao and Yu Ruijiang, Chao Zhongwei simply said sonorously and righteously, as if he had really suffered an injustice.
Li Yuanxiao sneered: "Framed? Isn't Zhang Bohuai your friend? Why doesn't he frame others, but wants to frame you, a friend?"
Chao Zhongwei shook his head and sighed bitterly: "It's only to blame me for being careless in making friends at the beginning, I'm afraid that Zhang Bohuai relied on the power of Tianyun Sect after the East Window incident, so he blamed it on me." The sect master wants to kill us today, and we will never run away, but I just hope that the sect master master will inform the family master afterwards, thoroughly investigate the ins and outs of the matter, and don't fall for the villain's tricks, which will lead to a grudge between the Taiqing and Tianyun sects. Chao Zhongwei saw that he couldn't do anything, so he took out the last piece of bargaining chip - the identity of a disciple of Tianyun Sect, he hoped in his heart that Li Yuanxiao would take into account the strength of Tianyun Sect and Ye Shenrong's face, and would not kill them here. As long as he returns to the sect, Ye Shenrong will inevitably protect his apprentices, and Chao Zhongwei also has a set of rhetoric, and it will be difficult for Li Yuanxiao to kill them again.
How could Li Yuanxiao not know Chao Zhongwei's thoughts, and thought hatefully: "Don't think that if you move out of Ye Shenrong and Tianyun Sect, I will spare you, let alone Tianyun Sect, even if you are a disciple of the Red Sun Sect, if you dare to harm my daughter, I will definitely let him pay for his blood debts!"
Yu Ruijiang, who had never spoken, suddenly said: "Chao Zhongwei, you killed the sect master's daughter Quanzhuang back then, and you have been away with it for so many years afterwards, and now that the evil deeds have been exposed, and the human and material evidence is there, you don't blame us for being ruthless." ”
Chao Zhongwei frowned: "Human witness, if it is only based on Zhang Bohuai's words, I am not convinced." Even the so-called 'physical evidence' -- Wen Hua Yu Pei -- was taken out by Zhang Bohuai, so why should there be any excuse for the crime that he wants to add? This is not fair!"
"Since this matter has nothing to do with you, why do you want to harm Zhang Bohuai? It is obvious that you are a thief with a weak heart, and you are worried that the matter will be exposed, so you will kill people and kill people!" Yu Ruijiang raised his voice.
Chao Zhongwei shouted aggrievedly: "Wronged! Before we rushed to the Poison Refining Sect, Zhang Bohuai's master and apprentice had already been killed! How could I have killed him?"
Yu Ruijiang sneered and glanced at Li Yuanxiao. Li Yuanxiao said to Chao Zhongwei: "It's finally exposed, ready to die!"
Chao Zhongwei was taken aback: "What does Sect Master Master mean by this?"
"We didn't say from beginning to end that Zhang Bohuai's apprentice was also killed together, and Sect Master Peng didn't mention it, and you didn't see the corpse, how did you know?" Li Yuanxiao asked sharply.
"Ah...... This, this, I heard from someone else......" Chao Zhongwei was completely panicked.
"Actually, Zhang Bohuai is not dead, the sword you stabbed him was not deeply wounded, and he had a medicine bag on his body to drive away dragon maggots, so after you left, he crawled out of the worm pit again and told us the truth of the matter. Yu Ruijiang said.
"No way! my sword ......"
"Senior brother!" Sima Kong on the side suddenly shouted, interrupting Chao Zhongwei's words. Chao Zhongwei's body was shocked, and he secretly said badly, and in a panic, he said that he was wrong again, this time he couldn't deny it.
"Junior brothers, run away!" Chao Zhongwei knew that Li Yuanxiao would not let him go, and he no longer pretended to be innocent, so he let the three junior disciples scatter and flee first, and he took out the fairy sword and rushed towards Li Yuanxiao. He knew that with the cultivation of a few junior disciples, it was impossible to escape Yu Ruijiang's pursuit, but he really didn't know what to do at this point.
As Chao Zhongwei thought, Fan Yuteng was stunned by Yu Ruijiang after catching up with him three steps after escaping. Sima Kong wanted the sword, but before he could stand firm on the sword, Yu Ruijiang slashed at him with a sword, cutting the fairy sword under his feet into two sections, Sima Kong fell down and was choked by Yu Ruijiang's neck. Yu Ruijiang dragged Sima Kong in a few steps to catch up with Mi Junliang, grabbed his throat with his other hand, and brought them back together.
How is Chao Zhongwei Li Yuanxiao's opponent here? Li Yuanxiao flicked it lightly, and blocked Chao Zhongwei's sword move, and slashed it with one blow. Chao Zhongwei hurriedly raised his sword to greet him, and with a "dang long" sound, the terrifying power from the sword body made the fairy sword in his hand fly out. Before he could come back to his senses, the Chengying Sword was already on his neck.
The difference in strength is too great, Chao Zhongwei glanced at it, and saw Yu Ruijiang grabbing the two and walking back, he let out a long sigh.
Yu Ruijiang threw the two of them to the ground, Sima Kong and Mi Junliang coughed incessantly, if they were pinched for a while, they would be killed by the West.
"So far, what else do you have to say?" Li Yuanxiao looked at Chao Zhongwei coldly.
Sima Kong replied first: "Sect Master Li, I was the one who wanted to kill your daughter and son-in-law back then, and they had nothing to do with my senior brother!"
"Oh, then why did you kill my daughter and son-in-law?" Li Yuanxiao looked at the grim young man who fell to the ground. In fact, Sima Kong had already attracted his attention before, after he pulled out the Chengying Sword, Fan Yuteng and Mi Junliang were quite afraid, only Sima Kong was calm and calm, staring at him with cold eyes. At this time, what Li Yuanxiao wanted to know most was why Chao Zhongwei wanted to kill his daughter, and when he saw Sima Kong say this, he temporarily put down the idea of cutting off Chao Zhongwei's head with a sword.
"The revenge of killing my mother is not shared!" Sima Kong replied angrily.
"Hugh is talking nonsense! My son-in-law is a chivalrous martial arts man, and his daughter is also pure-hearted, how could he kill your mother!"
"Hmph, chivalrous, Chunliang, then why do you have to kill a powerless woman like my mother? Sect Master Li, do you know how many people your son-in-law killed back then?" asked Sima Kong.
"My son-in-law has lived a bright and upright life, except for violence and peace, and the people he kills are all traitors, bandits, and bandits, and he will never harm your mother for no reason!"
"My father personally told me that my mother was killed by He Yundui, is this still false?"
Li Yuanxiao looked up to the sky and sighed, took back the fairy sword hanging on Chao Zhongwei's neck, and asked Sima Kong gently: "Are you surnamed Sima and have a single name?" Your father's name is Sima Ling, and he is the second master of Dongshi Mountain's Chuanyun Village. Am I right?"
"How do you know?" Sima Kong's eyes widened. His father was a bandit leader, and it was a shameful secret for him. Ever since Zhuyunzhai was leveled by He Yundui, Sima Kong had kept this secret firmly in his heart and told no one. Even when he pleaded with Chao Zhongwei to help take revenge, he didn't say a word about his father, but he didn't expect Li Yuanxiao to be clear about his life experience.
Li Yuanxiao sighed again: "Sure enough, you are the orphan of the bandit back then." I tell you, your mother was not killed by my son-in-law, but by your father. My son-in-law not only did not have a mother-killing enmity with you, but had a great kindness, but I didn't expect all good intentions to become a scourge, making you misunderstand, leading to the revenge of the later kindness. ”
"No, it can't be! How could my father kill my mother? He Yunwan is the murderer of my mother, how can he be kind to me? You don't want to lie to me!" Sima Kong shouted.
"Back then, my son-in-law gathered friends from all walks of life in the martial arts to go to the Balong Peak of Dongshi Mountain to exterminate the bandits in Zhuanyun Village, and hundreds of bandits never escaped. They are treacherous and deserved, and they naturally include your father Sima Ling. Sima Ling, as the second village master of Chuanyun Village, and Shen Zhennan, the master of the big village, have the same smell, and the two led a group of bandits to burn, kill and loot, and do all kinds of evil, so my son-in-law ordered all the righteous people from all walks of life to kill those gangsters without leaving their hands. Your father was killed by my son-in-law, are you jealous?" asked Li Yuanxiao.
"My father is indeed the leader of the bandits, and he did die at the hands of He Yundui, but he is to blame, and I am not jealous at all. However, my poor mother was a woman of a good family who was forcibly robbed up the mountain by my father, and she raised me with hard work, never doing anything unreasonable, but she couldn't escape from the bandits' den, so she had to take me to live in the bandits' village. Unexpectedly, He Yundui was red-eyed, and he killed people indiscriminately, even a weak woman like my mother refused to let go. I will naturally avenge such a big revenge!" In the end, Sima Kong's tears burst out of his eyes, and his mother's dead eyes never made him forget.
"You're mistaken. I ask you, have you ever seen my son-in-law kill your mother?"
Sima Kong was stunned for a moment: "That's not true." There was a river of blood and screams in the cottage, and by the time I found my mother in the midst of the chaos, she had been murdered. At that time, his father was fighting with He Yundui, but he was unable to defeat him and was slashed by He Yundui. When he fell to the ground, he pointed to his mother's corpse and shouted to me, 'Kong'er, remember, it was He Yundui who killed your father and your mother, you remember!' When he saw that I was still a child, he let me go down the mountain. At that time, I thought that he had discovered it in his conscience for a while, but later I realized that he was trying to make me suffer the hardships of losing my parents! Such a vicious person is nothing but a wicked person in the cloak of justice, and what is the difference between him and those bandits?"
Li Yuanxiao's tone was both regretful and regretful: "Alas, since you have never seen my son-in-law kill your mother, how can you be sure that what your father said is true? Let me tell you the truth of the matter: At that time, when your father knew that his life was not long in coming, he killed five wives and concubines to be buried for himself, and your mother was also one of them. By the time my son-in-law finds your father, it's too late to save your mother. What your father said, 'It was He Yundui who killed your mother', refers to my son-in-law's coming to settle the cottage. With my son-in-law's upright personality, he will never kill women and children, which is why he let you go. ”
Sima Kong shook his head again and again, and shouted sharply: "No! It is impossible! How do you know so clearly whether He Yundui killed my mother or not? I don't believe it!"
"This is what my son-in-law said to me personally. In addition, my son-in-law still has a great favor to you, if it weren't for him, how could you enter the Tianyun Sect to cultivate immortals?"
"I entered the Tianyun Sect to cultivate immortals because the master met me when he was traveling in Dongshi Mountain, and he found that I had good roots and bones before accepting me as an apprentice, what does it have to do with He Yundu?"
"Why don't you want to think about it, after the Cloud Turning Village was leveled, how did you survive without a father and mother, and without a support?"
"That's because I shouldn't have died, I met a kind farmer who took me in, and then I had to meet the master to get to where I am today. Sima Kongdao.
"The farmer was asked by my son-in-law to temporarily adopt you. Then my son-in-law came to ask me to accept you into the Taiqing Sect, but I was worried that you would be jealous because of the murder of your father, and it would be inconvenient for you to stay in my Taiqing Sect, so I did not agree. At that time, it happened that Sect Master Ye was a guest in our sect, and my son-in-law asked him to accept you, which led to the later 'Yunyou Accepting Disciples'. Do you know this? I didn't expect you to be obsessed with it, distort the truth, and finally take revenge and kill my daughter and son-in-law Quan Zhuang!" Li Yuanxiao was heartbroken.
"No, no! it's not true, it's not true......" Sima Kong collapsed, kneeling on the ground, his eyes closed, tears streaming down his face, ten fingers inserted into his hair, twisted "squeak" sound.
More than ten years of hatred turned out to be a big misunderstanding! Sima Kong thought back to his previous life, resentment, hatred, cold-bloodedness, and all negative attitudes affected him all the time, and this life was really too gloomy. "If you receive a drop of water, you should repay it with a spring. His ears suddenly sounded his mother's gentle voice, which was the words that his mother had been teaching him earnestly when he was a child. In order to educate Sima Kong, who was born in the bandits' den, the mother can be said to have worked hard and painstakingly, for fear that her son would be imperceptibly exposed to the usual ears and eyes, and take the wrong path of life. But Sima Kong was finally blinded by hatred and did something to take revenge.
"Ah——!" Sima Kong suddenly raised his head to the sky and roared, opened his red eyes, knelt and kowtowed to Li Yuanxiao three times, and then suddenly picked up the fairy sword dropped by Chao Zhongwei beside him, and stabbed a sword into his abdomen.
"Senior brother!" Chao Zhongwei exclaimed. Sima Kong's movements were so fast that Li Yuanxiao and Yu Ruijiang didn't have time to stop them. Sima spat out blood, smiled, and fell diagonally. In the moment before he died, he felt completely liberated. Grievances and hatreds have nothing to do with themselves. "Mother, Kong'er has a negative teaching, and now I'm looking for you underground......" Thinking in his heart, Sima Kong swallowed his last breath.
"Alas......" Li Yuanxiao and Yu Ruijiang sighed in unison.
"Sect, sect master, senior brother, he just said that it was he who asked us to help take revenge, and we killed your son-in-law Zhuang Zhong by mistake. Now that the truth is revealed, and the senior brother has committed suicide to apologize, the sect master will let us go!" Mi Junliang pleaded cautiously.
"Let you go?" Li Yuanxiao turned around, his cold eyes made several people shudder, "Let me ask you, have you ever protected the innocent people in the village? Or have you ever prevented Sima Kong from killing innocent people?" I'm afraid, you also enjoyed slaughtering people who had no power to fight back at that time!"
Mi Junliang was trembling like chaff all over his body, he was patronizing and killing happily at that time, where did he think so much?
"No—" Mi Junliang saw the cyan sword shadow slashing towards him, and before he could scream, his head was cut off.
Fan Yuteng has not woken up since he was knocked unconscious by Yu Ruijiang. Yu Ruijiang reversed the Xue Fei Sword and stabbed down with a sword, Fan Yuteng snorted, shook twice, and stopped moving.
Chao Zhongwei stood there dumbfounded, silent and unmoving. He understands that today is in danger. Thinking about the realm of his early stage of the void, although he was unwilling, he was helpless. Harm others will eventually harm oneself, and evil will eventually be rewarded. Looking at the sword light that was getting closer and closer, he calmly closed his eyes.
Li Yuanxiao burst into tears, his daughter and son-in-law got revenge, and the wish of the past five years came to an end. But he didn't expect that everything would come from a misunderstanding. At this moment, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
punish the evil and kill the orphans,
Do good deeds and accumulate virtue for its sake.
I don't want to have a grudge,
Painstaking practice without distractions.
Years of long-lasting hatred of recovery,
Embark on the road of revenge.
The innocent are powerless,
Hatred blindfolds and cares nothing.
I wanted to hide this evil forever,
Wen Huayu frowned.
Kill people to protect themselves,
Fortunately, Destiny cannot help.
The truth is revealed and my heart aches,
Grace will take revenge.
Years of grudges have finally been resolved,
I don't know whether it is joy or sorrow.