mesbooks Chapter 105 The Sudden Appearance of Murderous Intent: The Carefree Ancestor, Xiaoyaozi
Chapter 105 The Sudden Appearance of Murderous Intent: The Carefree Ancestor, Xiaoyaozi
Looking at the two somewhat deranged individuals, Ling Feng was filled with guilt and self-reproach. He said in a low voice:
"Uncle-Master, Uncle-Master, I originally just wanted to separate you, but who knew it would turn out like this."
Upon hearing Ling Feng's words, the two of them gradually focused their attention on him, as if they had suddenly woken up from a nightmare.
They all looked at Ling Feng, their eyes flashing with complex emotions, a mixture of anger, resentment, helplessness, and confusion.
Their lips trembled slightly, but they couldn't utter a complete sentence; the inner conflict plunged them into silence.
It's impossible to say that Ling Feng is completely blameless.
After all, if it weren't for his intervention, they wouldn't be in this situation now.
However, they cannot deny that Ling Feng's original intention was not malicious.
Moreover, Ling Feng did not kill them all, but preserved some of their internal energy.
If he really wanted to kill them, he could have simply drained all their internal energy in one go, and the result would have been that the two of them would have died from exhaustion of their internal energy.
Thinking about this, they couldn't help but feel a chill of fear.
At this moment, the two of them felt extremely complicated, with regret for the past and uncertainty about the future.
Seeing that their expressions changed several times but they didn't speak, Ling Feng assumed they were still immersed in the grief of losing their inner strength.
Seeing this, Ling Feng felt even more guilty. He looked at the two of them sincerely and said:
“Uncle-Master, if you have any grievances in your hearts, you are welcome to vent them on me. I will never have any complaints.”
Perhaps Ling Feng's sincere attitude had an effect, because Tong Lao looked at him with a complicated expression and said:
"Kid, I never thought that after fighting each other for most of our lives, all this internal energy would end up going to you."
After hearing what she said, Ling Feng didn't know how to respond, so he could only awkwardly touch the tip of his nose to hide his embarrassment.
Seeing Ling Feng's embarrassment, Tong Lao didn't press the matter further, but she still gave him some advice:
"Boy, now that you've absorbed most of my inner strength, you'd better take good care of Lingjiu Palace from now on."
"Don't worry, Uncle Master, I will definitely carry forward the Xiaoyao Sect."
Upon hearing the old woman's instructions, Ling Feng quickly expressed his agreement.
Of course, he's not just making empty promises; he will personally accomplish this goal.
Just as Ling Feng finished expressing his opinion, Li Qiushui couldn't help but sigh:
"Boy, now that you've absorbed our inner strength, it seems this is all just a cruel twist of fate."
Her tone carried a hint of helplessness and emotion.
Immediately afterward, Li Qiushui's tone suddenly became urgent, and she asked impatiently:
"I ask you, what did Wu Yazi say in the end?"
Ling Feng hesitated for a moment before answering:
"Well... before my master passed away, he only asked me to pass on the Free and Unfettered Sect. As for anything else, he didn't give me any special instructions."
He knew this was an important question, but he didn't want to deceive them.
Upon hearing Ling Feng's words, Li Qiushui's eyes widened, and she said incredulously:
"Didn't your master say anything about us?"
A hint of disappointment and resentment flickered in her eyes.
Seeing Li Qiushui so agitated, Ling Feng quickly explained:
"Well... although my master didn't give me any special instructions before he passed away, he did give me a painting and asked me to give it to you at the right time. I think now is that time."
After saying that, Ling Feng reached into his robes and took the painting out of the system space.
After taking the scroll out, Ling Feng carefully walked forward and handed it to them.
Li Qiushui reached out and took the scroll, her hands trembling violently, as if she were holding a precious and fragile treasure.
She gently unrolled the scroll, her gaze fixed on the painting, eager to uncover the mystery.
The old woman, unable to contain her curiosity, turned her head to look at the mysterious portrait as well.
As the scroll was slowly unfurled, both men's eyes widened simultaneously, their faces showing surprise and confusion. They discovered that the scroll depicted a human figure.
Li Qiushui's heart raced. When she first saw the portrait, she was overjoyed, because it was clearly her own image.
However, as she looked more closely, her expression suddenly turned gloomy.
The moment the old woman saw the portrait, she also gasped in surprise:
"It's you!"
But she quickly changed her tune, saying:
"No, no, this isn't you... it's her!"
As soon as she uttered those words, the old woman suddenly burst into laughter, her laughter filled with smugness and delight.
Ling Feng observed the changes in the two people's emotions but had no particular feelings about it, since she already knew the reason.
Just as Ling Feng was observing the changes in the two people's expressions, he suddenly felt a murderous aura descend upon him.
The murderous aura came so suddenly that it made his hair stand on end and his heart beat faster involuntarily.
Moreover, this murderous aura seemed to be directed solely at him; the three people beside him felt nothing at all.
This puzzled Ling Feng greatly, as he couldn't understand why he was the only one who could sense this murderous aura.
Sensing the danger, Ling Feng immediately looked up and around, hoping to find the source of the killing intent.
His gaze swept over the surrounding mountains and forests, but he found nothing unusual.
However, when he looked down at the hilltop he had just come down from, he saw an old man and a middle-aged woman on it.
The middle-aged woman looked exactly like Li Qiushui.
The source of the murderous aura was the old man.
Even now, the other three haven't noticed anything different and are still immersed in their world of sorrow.
When Ling Feng saw the middle-aged beauty, he already had some guesses about their identities.
He then forced himself to calm down.
He looked at the old man standing on the mountaintop and asked respectfully:
"Senior, I wonder what I have done to offend you that makes you so hostile towards me?"
Ling Feng's sudden outburst finally attracted the attention of the other three. They followed Ling Feng's gaze and finally saw the two people on the mountaintop.
When Tong Lao and Li Qiushui saw the faces of the two people on the mountaintop clearly, they couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:
"Master, junior sister (younger sister)"
Meanwhile, Wang Yuyan looked curiously at the two people on the mountaintop, especially the middle-aged beauty who looked seven or eight parts like her, which piqued her curiosity.
The exclamations of Tong Lao and Li Qiushui finally elicited a response from the two people above.
The old man floated down from above, his figure graceful and seemingly blending into the surrounding environment. His movements were light and elegant, like an immortal descending to earth.
When the middle-aged woman saw the old man set off, she followed closely behind, floating down like a butterfly in flight, and landed lightly on the ground.
As soon as the two of them stood in front of Ling Feng and the others, Tong Lao and Li Qiushui immediately rushed forward and knelt down, saying:
"Master, we've finally seen you again!"
Their voices were filled with excitement and joy, and their eyes were glistening with tears.
The old man looked at the two people kneeling before him, a hint of emotion on his face.
He sighed and said in a complicated tone:
"Alas, you fools. When I left, I warned you not to kill your fellow disciples, but you never listened to my instructions."
His eyes revealed disappointment and regret.
"Master, I know I have done wrong. Please punish me."
The two women looked like old women in their seventies or eighties, with wrinkles all over their faces and gray hair.
But at this moment, in front of the old man, they bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes like children who had made a mistake.
"Enough. You've all fallen to this state now, what's the point of talking about punishment?"
The old man sighed softly, then shifted his gaze from the two people on the ground to Ling Feng.
Ling Feng felt the old man's gaze and his heart tightened.
After looking him up and down for a while, he looked at Ling Feng with a serious expression and asked:
"Boy, are you Wuyazi's disciple?"
Ling Feng was startled when he heard the old man's words.
He hadn't expected that the old man would see through his identity so easily, and judging from the old man's tone, he seemed to have some ill intentions.
He didn't know why the old man was unfriendly to him. Logically speaking, the old man was Wu Yazi's master, which meant he was his grandmaster, and he hadn't offended him in any way.
But Ling Feng didn't think about that at the moment. He nodded respectfully and replied:
"Indeed, my master is Wuyazi."
In fact, Ling Feng had been observing these two people the whole time. Although he couldn't easily use his internal energy now, his cultivation level was indeed at the peak of the Grandmaster realm.
The old man in front of them was even more unfathomable in strength. Just from his actions just now, one could roughly tell that he was already a Grandmaster in the late stage.
As for the middle-aged beauty, she was a master in the late stage of the Grandmaster realm.
Although both of them were quite powerful, Ling Feng thought they probably wouldn't attack him.
After all, he was his grand-disciple, and he hadn't done anything wrong.
However, when the old man heard Ling Feng admit it, his face darkened further. He snorted coldly and pointed at the old woman and Li Qiushui on the ground, saying:
"Hmph, since you are Wu Yazi's disciple, then they are your senior uncles and aunts. Is this how you treat them? You actually absorbed most of their internal energy. Is this how Wu Yazi taught you?!"
Hearing the old man's accusations, Ling Feng felt wronged. He didn't want to take the blame entirely, so he quickly spoke up in his defense:
"This... I didn't want to either. It was just that my martial uncles and senior uncles were competing in internal strength. I saw that they were about to determine a winner, so I decided to separate them."
To my surprise, the moment I made contact with them, their internal energy surged toward me.
Just when I was about to give up, I used the internal energy absorbed by the Northern Darkness Divine Art.
After hearing Ling Feng's explanation, the old man's expression improved considerably.
In fact, they hadn't been there long and hadn't witnessed what had happened before.
Therefore, the old man mistakenly believed that Ling Feng had forcibly absorbed their internal energy.
Despite the valid reasons, the old man still harbored some dissatisfaction.
"Hmph, even so, you didn't need to absorb all nine levels of their internal energy!"
Ling Feng felt somewhat helpless and explained:
"Well... at the time, I was only focused on neutralizing the absorbed internal energy, and in a moment of carelessness, I absorbed a little more."
This wasn't Ling Feng lying; he was simply stating the facts.
The old man was clearly not satisfied with Ling Feng's answer. He looked Ling Feng up and down, snorted coldly, and then mocked him:
"Hmph, you greedy brat, your cultivation level is unstable now! I think you're reaping what you sowed."
Since the Northern Darkness Divine Art was originally created by the old man, he was naturally able to see through Ling Feng's current situation at a glance.
Although he knew that Ling Feng's realm was higher than his own, he could also sense the hidden dangers that Ling Feng currently faced.
Ling Feng was not alarmed when the old man pointed out the hidden danger, after all, what the old man said was true.
Moreover, Ling Feng wasn't too worried, because as long as he cultivated the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, he would be able to suppress this unstable internal energy.
After mocking Ling Feng, the old man, perhaps finally releasing his pent-up frustration, asked Ling Feng again:
"Boy, after all that talk, do you even know who I am?"
Ling Feng was not stupid. From the reactions of Tong Lao and Li Qiushui just now, as well as the beautiful woman next to her who looked very similar to Wang Yuyan, he had already guessed the old man's identity.
Hearing the old man ask directly, Ling Feng quickly bowed deeply and said:
"Grand-disciple Lingfeng greets Grandmaster."
Although he was somewhat dissatisfied with Ling Feng, seeing that he was quite clever, the old man nodded and said:
"Get up! Where is your master? Why doesn't he come to stop them from killing each other?"
Upon hearing his question, Ling Feng did not get up from the ground, but instead knelt down and replied:
"Grandmaster, our master has passed away."
"What? How could that be? With his cultivation level, he should be able to live for another hundred or eighty years without any problem."
Seeing the old man lose his composure, Ling Feng quickly explained:
"Master, Master was murdered, which is why he died young."
"Hmph, what harmed him? Judging by his strength, there aren't many people in this world who could hurt him."
The old man was clearly unable to accept this result.
Ling Feng quickly answered the old man's question.
“This… Master used to have a disciple named Ding Chunqiu, and it was Ding Chunqiu who killed Master.”
"Hmph, where is that kid now?"
"Grandmaster, your grand-disciple has already executed Ding Chunqiu in front of you."
Upon hearing Ling Feng's answer, the old man's expression finally softened somewhat, but he still pressed on with a serious look, asking about the reason for the murder back then.
"Hmph, that's more like it. Why would that kid want to kill your master?"
Although Ling Feng understood the whole story, he decided to play dumb because Li Qiushui was involved, in order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.
"Well... I only recently became an apprentice myself, so I don't know the specifics of what happened back then."
The old man had no suspicions. Seeing that Ling Feng didn't know the details, he turned his head and looked at Tong Lao and Li Qiushui, demanding in a firm tone that they tell him the details of what happened back then.
Faced with this question, Li Qiushui seemed somewhat hesitant.
After all, the events of that year were intricately connected to her, making it difficult for her to speak of them.
Without hesitation, Tong Lao recounted everything that had happened back then.
It turns out that after Li Qiushui and Ding Chunqiu had an affair, out of resentment towards Wu Yazi, she instigated Ding Chunqiu to harm Wu Yazi.
Ding Chunqiu was also afraid that his affair with Li Qiushui would be discovered, so he agreed to her request without hesitation.
One day, when Wu Yazi was completely unprepared, Ding Chunqiu suddenly attacked him from behind and pushed him off the cliff.
At the time, everyone believed that Wu Yazi was surely dead, so they did not search for his remains.
However, Wu Yazi's youngest apprentice, Su Xinghe, decided to collect his master's remains.
When he arrived at the foot of the cliff, he was surprised to find that Wu Yazi was still alive, but seriously injured.
Unable to confront Ding Chunqiu due to his own lack of strength, Su Xinghe had no choice but to hide Wu Yazi and pretend to be deaf and mute to avoid arousing Ding Chunqiu's suspicion.