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Meanwhile, the Xiaoyang lineage...

Xiao Weiran looked at the familiar face in front of him in disbelief, his eyes filled with sadness, sorrow, and confusion—a complex mix of emotions.

"Why! Xiao'er, haven't I treated you well? Why are you doing this?!"

Ling Xiao grabbed Xiao Lingling by the neck with one hand and held a long sword in the other, his eyes so gloomy they seemed to drip water.

"Why? Do you think all I want is the position of the head of the Xiaoyang lineage? Master, why are you always so naive? What I've always wanted is the entire Qinghe Palace! It's just that you can't do that."

"You...you...why do you have such ambition!"

Xiao Weiran pointed tremblingly at Ling Xiao and questioned him, his eyes sweeping over Xiao Lingling, who was being held in Ling Xiao's hand and had her mouth covered as she sobbed, a hint of heartache flashing across his face.

"Ambition, Master, what is ambition? In this world, if you don't climb up, you are destined to be trampled underfoot by others. I just want to climb up."

However, I have reminded you several times that the Second Elder is the best candidate for Palace Master, but you always hesitate, not wanting to offend this or that.

Your indecisive, pushover persona is absolutely disgusting!

Xiao Weiran's chest heaved with anger. Was he indecisive? Calling him a pushover was disgusting.

Who was he doing all this for? Wasn't it all for his traitorous disciple? Once he got involved in the struggle for the Palace Master position, neither the Second Elder nor the First Elder were people his declining Xiaoyang lineage could afford to offend.

Only by remaining neutral can Ling Xiao and his daughter live peacefully in the sect a hundred years from now. However, despite his painstaking efforts, he was scolded as a pushover by his favorite disciple, who found him disgusting.

At this moment, Xiao Weiran felt his blood surging, and suddenly he understood everything.

From the very beginning, Ling Xiao had ulterior motives. Perhaps the apprenticeship was a thrilling deception. After all, he and the Second Elder Ling Feng encountered the intelligent Ling Xiao begging on the street, but Ling Feng ignored him, allowing him to take advantage of the situation.

He used to laugh at Ling Feng for being blind, but now he realizes that he was the one who was truly blind.

Mingming had some suspicions about Ling Xiao when Lin Yuan first betrayed him, but at the time, he thought about the more than ten years of relationship between the master and disciple, and how he had doted on his eldest disciple because of his outstanding talent.

He would never betray himself, no matter who he betrayed. That's why when Ling Xiao was suspected of attacking his fellow disciples, he stood up for him, even at the cost of creating a rift with the Danyang lineage and driving away Lin Yuan, the only one who was wary of him, making him bear the blame for framing his fellow disciples.

Looking back now, Xiao Weiran wished he could slap himself twice; countless regrets and pains intertwined in his heart.

puff!

Unable to hold back the surge of blood and qi, Xiao Weiran spat it out, and his mental state became listless.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Lingling, who was in Ling Xiao's hands, instantly turned her whimpering into a mournful growl.

"father!"

Xiao Lingling didn't know where she got the strength, but she broke free from Ling Xiao's large hand that was holding her, and ran to Xiao Weiran's side with teary eyes.

Just as she was about to support the swaying Xiao Weiran, Xiao Weiran suddenly erupted, slapping her towards the door with a palm strike imbued with his inner energy.

"Run! Don't come back!"

After speaking, Xiao Weiran suddenly unleashed his true energy, a massive surge of innate true energy that finally coalesced into a giant fist, which he then blasted directly at the somewhat astonished Ling Xiao.

However, the astonishment in Ling Xiao's eyes was only fleeting, and he quickly regained his composure. He neither dodged nor avoided Xiao Weiran's attack. As the wind from the fist struck him, his white clothes fluttered lightly, making him look like an elegant young gentleman.

"boom!"

Just as Xiao Weiran was secretly pleased, a bewitching figure suddenly blocked his way. The woman only glanced at Xiao Weiran, and he fell into a daze, his attack vanishing in an instant.

"Auntie, you've finally arrived!"

Ling Xiao smiled and spoke.

The mysterious woman glanced disdainfully at Xiao Weiran, who was captivated by him, then turned to look at Ling Xiao, a faint smile appearing on her sexy red lips beneath her mask.

"Xiao'er, it's been so long! I never imagined that you, who were so small and thin back then, have grown into such a handsome young man. You've worked so hard as an inside man in Qinghe Palace all these years!"

Ling Xiao shook his head slightly, "Auntie, I'm not suffering. It's all for the eternal glory of the Holy Sect!"

The mysterious woman nodded.

"If it weren't for your father's dragging his feet, you would have returned to the Holy Gate long ago. Why would you need to stay here pretending to be a dutiful disciple to this old man!"

After speaking, the mysterious woman slapped Xiao Weiran hard with her palm as if venting her anger.

Xiao Weiran, who had been staring at him with fascination, suddenly changed his expression and flew out of the air, crashing heavily onto his beloved desk.

Spitting out a mouthful of scarlet blood, Xiao Weiran regained consciousness and felt his meridians rupture. At that moment, all the light in his eyes dimmed.

"Alright, Auntie, let's find out about the jade pendant that controls the guardian beast first! I just wonder how Mother is!"

"Don't worry, with your mother's strength and the sect leader's help, taking down an injured old man is a piece of cake."

After speaking, the mysterious woman approached Xiao Weiran, who looked like a dead man.

"Old man, produce the token that controls the guardian beasts of Qinghe Palace!"

Xiao Weiran glanced at the woman with his dim eyes, then turned his gaze in another direction.

The mysterious woman was not angry at this, but instead covered her mouth and smiled gently.

"Old man, you don't actually think I can't do anything to you, do you!"

After speaking, the mysterious woman clapped her hands, and Xiao Lingling, who had just been slapped out of the room by Xiao Weiran, was dragged in by two men wearing identical black masks and thrown to the ground.

Xiao Lingling stared at her father lying on the ground, her face deathly pale, tears silently streaming down her face.

Looking at her disheveled father, she thought of many things.

For the first time, she hated herself so much for being so useless. She had a loving father and came from a prestigious sect, so why didn't she practice martial arts diligently? Otherwise, she wouldn't be unable to deal with even a few outer disciples of the demonic sect.

Xiao Weiran, who was pretending to be dead on the ground, turned deathly pale and trembled violently when he saw his daughter being brought back.

"What...what do you want to do? Ling Xiao, Lingling knows nothing, so you're all coming at me with everything!"

After saying that, he tried to stand up excitedly to protect his delicate daughter, but the mysterious woman didn't give him the chance and kicked him.

"Old man, if you want to save your daughter, tell me the token that controls the guardian beast!"

Upon hearing the woman's words, Xiao Weiran's face turned pale and then red, his eyes filled with struggle.

If he handed over the token, Qinghe Palace would surely be destroyed by the Demonic Sect, and his daughter would be doomed in the face of such destruction. But if he didn't hand it over, he would have to watch helplessly as his beloved daughter, whom he had cherished for so many years, was tortured in the hands of the enemy, and he couldn't bear to do that.

After struggling for a long time, Xiao Weiran finally raised his hand shakily and pointed to a location.

"There's a hidden compartment there. Open it and you'll find the token to control the divine beast. However, a complete divine beast token comes in three copies. Even if you get my token, you can only put the divine beast into a state of chaos at most. To truly control the divine beast, you must collect all three tokens!"

The mysterious woman glanced at her disdainfully.

"Do you even need to tell me that!"

After saying that, she walked in the direction Xiao Weiran pointed, opened the hidden compartment, and the next moment a mechanism was pulled, and a small wall was pulled up. When the woman came closer, she saw a bright green jade pendant quietly placed inside.

Without hesitation, the woman picked up the token, examined it briefly, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Not bad! At least you're honest!"

"Xiao'er, I'll leave this old fellow to you. Auntie will take the token to the sect leader right away. Once we kill this divine beast, our Holy Sect will have another Transcendent Realm expert. At that time, the entire Jiangnan region will belong to our Holy Sect!"

The mysterious woman's voice trembled slightly, demonstrating just how powerful a being in the Transcendent Realm was.

Ling Xiao's lips curled into a smile. If he guessed correctly, the next person to reach the Transcendent Realm would definitely be his mother, because in the entire Holy Sect, apart from the sect leader, his mother, the head of the Blood Fiend Hall, was the strongest, having reached the ninth level of the Innate Realm.

Being able to become the son of someone who has transcended the mortal realm is no worse than becoming the young master of Qinghe Palace.

"Then Auntie, please go quickly!"

Ling Xiao said with a hint of excitement.

However, just as the mysterious woman was about to walk out the door, she suddenly paused.

"Oh! Xiao'er, after you've dealt with things here, immediately take some men to hunt down that kid for me. That kid has monstrous talent; he's reached the first-rate realm at such a young age. We absolutely cannot let him get away so easily!"

A hint of doubt flashed in Ling Xiao's eyes. There were only a handful of first-rate disciples in the entire Qinghe Palace. Apart from Xiao Zhan, the disciple of the Grand Elder, whose talent could be described as monstrous, who else was there?

With a sense of doubt, Ling Xiao couldn't help but ask.

"Auntie, who is this boy you're talking about? Besides Xiao Zhan, I don't know of any other prodigy like you in Qinghe Palace!"

A glint of light flashed in the mysterious woman's eyes.

"It was that junior disciple of your Pill Hall elder. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have let a master-level alchemist escape!"

The pupils of those present who were familiar with Lin Yuan instantly contracted.

The pill hall mentioned by the demoness must be the Danyang lineage, which is easy for them to understand. And who else could be the junior disciple of the Danyang lineage besides Lin Yuan?

Even Xiao Weiran, whose heart was ashen, couldn't help but feel a sharp pang in his chest at that moment. What had he driven away? A true peerless genius!

Li Qingyang, who had been trying his best to keep a low profile, was even more shocked. That lowly fellow had actually reached the level of a first-class master. How could this be possible?

Silently sobbing, Xiao Lingling couldn't help but recall the scene at noon when Lin Yuan scolded her as a piece of trash, and her tears stopped instantly.

Ling Xiao's eyes flashed with unprecedented astonishment. Anyone whom his aunt called a prodigy must have the talent of an unparalleled genius. This reminded him of the scene when the two of them first had a conversation.

"No one can break free from the shackles of fate from the start; my senior brother was one, and so am I!"

The saying "You are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish?" still lingered in his mind. Whenever he thought of it at night, Ling Xiao felt that the saying made a lot of sense. It was also that time that he had to take Lin Yuan, who had climbed up from the servants' quarters and was not like a child, seriously.

Suppressing his astonishment, a fierce glint flashed in Ling Xiao's eyes. Now that they were enemies, this prodigy had to be eliminated, otherwise he would grow stronger...

"Don't worry! Auntie, I'll find him even if I have to dig three feet into the ground!"

Satisfied with Ling Xiao's answer, the mysterious woman left the place.