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Arc 7 – Farewell to that Senior Brother
Chapter 175

Qinghe Zhenren self-destructed. This statement was something everyone in the cultivation realm was familiar with.

Although everyone said this, no one saw the scene itself. When Qinghe was forced into a desperate situation and died in the end, the only other person beside him at the time was Jiye.

Jiye had said that he had self-destructed, and everyone believed him. No one doubted the authenticity of that line.

The cave was narrow and dim. Any sound here would be amplified several times. No one spoke. There was only the sound of water dripping from the top of the cave. Nestled in Lin Changfeng’s arms, Chi Zhao’s breathing eased a lot.

Qinghe Zhenren was a big villain. Chi Zhao knew about this a long time ago, but he didn’t know that Qinghe was once a member of the Zhao Tian sect, let alone the fact that Qinghe and Jiye had just an intricate relationship.

What kind of scene was this?! Can he just go home now?!

The answer was naturally no.

………

Wanluan was completely stunned. Chi Zhao took advantage of this moment to glance up at Lin Changfeng’s chin.

It turned out that he knew Qinghe Zhenren and was taught by him for some time. No wonder he was so worried about him. He was probably afraid of the same thing happening again.

Soft footsteps sounded. Chi Zhao withdrew his gaze and saw that Wanluan had finally moved.

She only took a step forward. Huang Lin’er stared at her like she was facing a big enemy. If she moved even a little more, she was ready to fight her to death. Jiye Zhenren was still the same as before, as if what he had said just now wasn’t important at all.

“You……killed Qinghe?”

When Wanluan asked this, her voice was very, very small. It was just a few simple words, but it almost faded in the air as soon as it left her mouth. Jiye Zhenren just looked at her, not answering.

But it also meant that he was silently affirming. Wanluan’s eyes were empty. She looked even more terrifying now than earlier when her face was twisted with anger because no one knew when she would suddenly go mad again.

“Then where did you hide his body?”

If he didn’t self-destruct, it meant that there should be a corpse. Jiye pursed his lips and replied, “It’s also in the forbidden area.”

“…..You do realise how much he liked you, right?”

The people in the cave didn’t dare move. Even Mengyi who was supporting her wounded arm and leaning against the wall didn’t act. Their sect leader had completely changed since Qinghe Zhenren’s death. Right now, no one knew what Wanluan really was like. The only thing they could be certain of was that Qinghe Zhenren was a sore spot for her.

Wanluan held her long whip and closed her eyes for a few seconds. She seemed to be smiling but she also seemed to have no expression at all. After letting out a long breath, she said, “I really regret it. I should’ve killed you the first time I saw you. People like you are not worthy of living in this world.”

Before she finished saying this, Huang Ling’er had a warning alarm go off in her mind. She immediately took action to snatch away the weapon in Wanluan’s hand but before she could reach her, Wanluan had already opened her eyes.

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Huang Ling’er who was in the soul formation stage couldn’t even make a move before she was thrown against the cave wall. Huang Ling’er could feel her internal organs twist about inside her and she spat out a pool of blood. Climbing up from the ground with difficulty, she smacked away Chi Zhao’s outstretched hand and said with a poor expression, “She has gone mad.”

Without needing Huang Ling’er to say this, anyone with eyes could see it. Wanluan was already in a state of madness and with Jiye’s stimulation that time, she had become even more irrational. There was no one else in her eyes, only Jiye. If she didn’t kill Jiye tonight, she wouldn’t be able to let it go.

Chi Zhao and Huang Ling’er stayed together in one place. When Lin Changfeng saw that Jiye was in trouble, he wanted to go and help him, but before he could take a step out, he heard Jiye’s calm voice, “You won’t be able to kill me either.”

The blows carrying killing intent had all been avoided by Jiye. Wanluan sneered and didn’t even stop to think about why he would say something like this. She threw her whip out again and this time, Jiye couldn’t avoid it. Seeing that the whip strong enough to shatter his internal organs, Lin Changfeng’s pupils constricted. As soon as he was about to shout out the word ‘master’, he saw the whip pass through Jiye Zhenren’s body and hit the cave wall.

Boom———-

Large pieces of rock shattered and fell onto the ground.

Everyone was left dumbfounded by this sudden scene and it was the same with Wanluan. She was still in an agitated state, “You actually only used a clone to save your disciples? Ha! This is the sect leader of Zhao Tian sect, this is the Jiye Zhenren everyone loves. Is it because you’re too cowardly or because you don’t see me as anything worthy? Did you actually think that you could beat me with just a clone?!”

Those involved may be unaware, but the onlookers saw it very clearly. Wanluan was in too much of an emotional state to see the truth of the matter. In this place, although he was taken away to be a vessel, Chi Zhao was the only true outsider here, so he knew what was going on. He looked at Jiye Zhenren in daze. Everything that had happened over the past three years finally made sense.

Jiye Zhenren never went out, only going out once to accept disciples but even then, he would use a clone. As a cultivator in the body unification stage, his clone was almost the same as his real body and no one could tell the difference between them. He didn’t teach his disciples but would still accept disciples, he would hand over sect affairs to the disciples below without doing anything and he also didn’t see anyone apart from Lin Changfeng who he meets only once every six months.

As Wanxuan had said, in todays situation, it really didn’t make sense for Jiye Zhenren to come using a clone. And so, why would he use a clone?

What if he didn’t choose to come as a clone but had no choice but to come as a clone…..

Chi Zhao’s eyes suddenly widened.

For six hundred years, Jiye Zhenren had been in retreat, but his strength hadn’t changed at all. This in itself was already very strange. Everyone had thought that he had entered a bottleneck period following stimulation from Qinghe Zhenren’s incident, but a bottleneck period wasn’t like this and there would still be some changes. For it to still remain the same, it was as if…….he had been fixed in place.

Linking it with Jiye Zhenren’s words just now, he had said that Wanluan wouldn’t be able to kill him. Why was he so certain? What kind of person would never be killed?

Chi Zhao was the first to think of the answer. The second was Huang Ling’er, the third was Lin Changfeng and finally the fourth was Wanluan whose mind was still a mess.

From the moment he stepped out of Zhao Tian sect, Jiye no longer thought about hiding it. He had concealed that incident back then because Zhao Tian sect had received a devastating blow with many of the powerful elders slaughtered and the murderer being Qinghe who was vice-sect leader. At that time, Zhao Tian sect had fallen from the position of being one of the top six sects and people all pointed fingers at them. At that time, he, as the sect leader, was not only the sect’s pillar, but also the spiritual pillar for the disciples there.

And so, he couldn’t have anything happen to him. At least, on the surface he couldn’t.

The originally angry and sharp cries came to an abrupt end. Thinking of a possibility, Wanluan’s face instantly paled, “You’re….dead?”

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The death of a cultivator above the soul formation stage was called Yunluo. (KKnotes: Literally falling from the sky) Having reached the soul formation stage, one could in fact be considered a half-immortal and, once dead, their divine senses would still remain. If the strength was strong enough, it could continue to survive even until the end of the world and this was one of the reasons why people were so keen to find treasures left behind by high-levelled cultivators. The place where the treasures are would usually also contain remnants of the cultivator’s divine senses and if anyone was to get their hands onto this, it was equivalent to obtaining the best teacher in the world. Before that divine sense dissipates, they could gain from it countless knowledge and experience.

Divine senses can exist in the world either for a short moment or a long period of time and it is generally proportional to strength. If you took care of it, talked less and consumed less of the energy, the time it could stay around for would be much longer.

This also explained why Jiye didn’t go out, didn’t speak and didn’t guide the disciples but still continued to accept disciples.

It was because he could no longer manage the sect and required someone to help him.

Jiye lowered his eyes slightly, “Like I said, you won’t be able to kill me.”

Wanluan’s hand that held the whip was almost trembling. Her eyes were red, and she looked at Jiye with a strange expression. For a moment she seemed like she was about to cry but she later seemed like she was about to laugh. After a long time, she finally spoke, “Impossible…..impossible…..”

Although she said that it was impossible, she was only trying to deceive herself. She then raised her eyes and asked, “When?”

After a brief silence, Jiye Zhenren answered, “The day I buried Qinghe.”

The day Qinghe died wasn’t the day he was buried. There were still a lot of things to deal with in the sect and Jiye had to finish all those things first before he could hand his sect over to his disciple. Lin Changfeng was still young and may not be able to bear such a heavy burden, but there was nothing he could do. He could only take away as much burden from Lin Changfeng as much as possible by leaving behind a clone made of his divine senses which could also be used for a while to fool the others.

When he first accepted his disciple, he really wanted to properly develop him into a good successor. Although he wasn’t so good to the disciple, he also wasn’t bad enough to leave the entire mess to the disciple to deal with.

He however had no choice.

He couldn’t live anymore, so he really had no choice.

The day Qinghe was buried, he held Qinghe’s body and laid with him in the grave that had been prepared for him since the day he became the sect leader. The beast rescued by Qinghe thousands of years ago voluntarily guarded their grave. That beast had lived for so long, but its intelligence had never changed. It continued to guard the grave, roaring loudly every day, crying over the pain of never being able to see its owner again. Jiye originally thought that it would come to an understanding one day but even after six hundred years, it was still the same as before and had never considered leaving.

Reasonably speaking, he had already died and all that was left was just a piece of his divine senses so Jiye felt that he shouldn’t feel any lingering attachments. But when he thought of that stupid beast, he felt some sadness.

There are many people who miss Qinghe.

But the only one who dared to say how much they missed Qinghe, was this beast.

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