Swing the sword at the future female devil

Chapter 447 Don't even get involved with love-struck people.

Taiqing's gaze gradually calmed down. She raised her hand and unfurled the Heavenly Demon Emperor's Domain Soul Banner, the shrieks of the living souls blocking out external sounds. Taiqing scrutinized Duan Huaige, as if trying to see through his bluff.

Duan Huaige continued, "Taiqing, you're actually a pitiful person too, aren't you?"

"You were willing to guard the Heavenly Realm for the sake of the Holy Land for 30,000 years, but what you received in return was not praise for your heroism, but ruthless betrayal. They treated you as a pawn, as a tool to be discarded at will!"

"I know you're probably wondering where I got this information from, and I'm not afraid to tell you, it was 'you' who told me!"

"The once righteous and righteous Tianxuan Saintess must be heartbroken to see herself become so bloodthirsty and cruel."

"If you don't believe me, you can take a look at my cause-and-effect relationship! See if I have indirectly changed some things."

A faint red light flickered in Taiqing's eyes. He focused his gaze and saw that, in the eyes of a practitioner of the Dao of Cause and Effect, Duan Huaige's body was covered with broken causal lines of black and red. Clearly, this was the consequence of his interference with the Great Cause and Effect.

However, due to the limited interference with cause and effect within the illusion, these broken black and red causal lines did not directly strangle Duan Huaige!

Now it was Taiqing's turn to fall silent. He seemed to be deep in thought. Duan Huaige pressed his advantage, saying, "Why do you think you turned evil and slaughtered your fellow disciples? Was it hatred? No! They forced you to!"

"Kunlun Ruins, or to use a name you're more familiar with—the Heavenly Realm! You should be familiar with what it once held. Since you were sealed inside the Mountain and River Map as a sacrifice and wandered through Kunlun Ruins to reach this world, you should have guessed their purpose in your heart, right?"

"Reopen the severed Kunlun Heavenly Road, connect all realms, and regain supreme authority!" Duan Huaige shouted. "Taiqing, I laugh at your pitifulness. You bear the Dao of Cause and Effect, and your origin is the same as that of the Heavenly Profound Holy Land. You are the perfect sacrifice they have chosen!"

"Even though you've been treated like this, you're only thinking about getting entangled with us here, wasting our time!"

"Taiqing, don't you want to see the place that has trapped your fate?! See what those who have sacrificed you are plotting?! See if the Kunlun Ruins are the place you seek for liberation, or the starting point for your revenge?!"

Hei Taiqing fell silent. His crimson demonic eyes swept back and forth between Duan Huaige, Jiang Xiyu, and the various Arhats of the Zen sect, his demonic energy fluctuating wildly. In the end, the desire for revenge and the thirst for the truth overcame the urge to kill immediately.

"How...how can you prove it?" Hei Taiqing's voice was hoarse. Although his killing intent had not subsided, he was clearly shaken by the huge amount of information he was being bombarded with.

"I can't prove it because that level of stuff is beyond my reach, but all the answers are in Kunlun Ruins. It just so happens that my father-in-law works in the military, and they've dug the deepest and most extensive digs."

“Go, Taiqing. Of course you can go on a killing spree here, but if you do that, you will never have another chance to enter Kunlun Ruins.”

"While the news of your appearance at the Zen temple has just spread, you still have time to go there."

Little Jiang the Great Demon King: ? ? ?

Alright, alright, so you've already started calling Cang Ling's father and father-in-law, huh? Duan Huaige, I must be crazy to let you be so presumptuous!
"Hmph! Duan Huaige! If there is even a single falsehood in what you say, I will make you wish you were dead!" She left these words in a chilling tone, then her demonic claws suddenly turned towards the Zen Buddhist Causal Dao Stele!

Under her guidance, the fragment of the Jiangshan Sheji Map within the Dao Stele slowly emerged. A tattered scroll exuding an ancient and desolate aura was swept out by demonic light and fell into Hei Taiqing's hands! She didn't even glance at it before putting it away.

"We'll meet again sooner or later." "Hey, hey, that's my reward for painstakingly comprehending the Dao of Cause and Effect! My incomplete map!" Miss Qiu Xi wanted to say something more, but after being glared at by Tai Qing, she decisively shrank back, gave a dry laugh, and tried to salvage the situation:

"However, since the ancestor and I are old acquaintances, you can take a look first."

"Wait a moment!"

Little Jiang the Great Demon King suddenly spoke, causing Miss Yan Wang to tremble and look at her good friend with great admiration.

As expected of you, Xiao Jiang. I never thought you'd dare to try and steal from Taiqing at a time like this.
"Duan Huaige, I will repay this humiliation tenfold in the future! Master Taiqing, I will turn evil with you! Together we will make this world hear the deathly silence of extinction!"

Duan Huaige: "."

His lips twitched as he watched Xiao Jiang's exaggerated "I'm going to destroy the world for you to see" performance, feeling both amused and helpless. This girl, is she possessed by a drama queen? This arrogant personality of hers is clearly just trying to force him to ask her to stay!
"Stay away, don't get involved with love-struck people."

Taiqing coldly uttered these few words, not even bothering to glance at Jiang Xiyu again. At this moment, her mind was filled with the secrets of Kunlun Ruins and the shocking conspiracy revealed in Duan Huaige's words; a mere little girl was simply not worth her attention.

Even if she achieves extraordinary success in the future, perhaps even rivaling him, that's only if she can actually make it to that future.

With a flicker of the demonic shadow, the spatial rift closed instantly, and Taiqing's aura vanished completely from the spot, leaving swiftly and decisively without any lingering attachment.

Jiang Xiyu maintained her "fierce and world-destroying" posture, her small hands raised high, exuding a menacing aura. However, the expression on her face froze completely. Her large eyes, which had been burning with vengeful rage, were now filled with only bewilderment, astonishment, and... a sense of shame and indignation at being utterly ignored!
She...she was actually rejected?! This dark-hearted mentor, whom she "voluntarily sought refuge with," dismissed her with a casual "love-struck" remark?! He didn't even bother to give her a second glance?!
"Love-obsessed...? She...she actually called me love-obsessed?!" Jiang Xiyu muttered to herself, her voice trembling with disbelief. She was so angry that she was shaking all over, and her eyes instantly turned red.

Yan Qiuxi walked over and patted her on the shoulder, comforting her, "Take it easy, sister. She said you're love-struck... at least she admits you have brains..."

"Get out of here!"

Duan Huaige watched as Xiao Jiang went from being fierce and aggressive to being dumbfounded, and then to exploding on the spot, looking as aggrieved as a child whose candy had been taken away. The helplessness in his heart instantly turned into overflowing tenderness. He quickly stepped forward and hugged the trembling, aggrieved little figure tightly into his arms.

"Alright, alright, sweetie, don't be angry anymore, don't be angry anymore." His voice was gentler than ever before, filled with deep apology and comfort. He patted her back gently with his large hand, like soothing a frightened child.

Suddenly pulled into a warm embrace, Jiang Xiyu stiffened, then struggled, coldly saying, "Let go of me! Who needs your pretense! Go find your wife who's 30,000 years older than you! Go find your Cangling! I have nothing to do with you anymore!"

Duan Huaige hugged her even tighter, his chin gently resting on the top of her head, his voice low and sincere: "It's my fault, Xiyu. It's all my fault." He admitted his mistake directly, without making any excuses.

He lowered his head, their noses almost touching, their warm breaths mingling: "Having gone through this ordeal with Zen, I suddenly understand many things. Qiu Xi, Cang Ling, Shuang Jiang... each of you is someone I cannot part with, someone I would risk my life to protect. If I were to abandon any one of you, I would never be happy in this life."

As she spoke, Duan Huaige took the hand of Miss Yan Wang beside her and said softly:

"I made mistakes before, causing you anxiety and sadness. I promise I won't do it again. Please give me a chance to prove it to you, okay?"

(End of this chapter)