As the Universe Turns - Chapter 991
Chapter 991 Doubtful Clouds
Bu Yundian sighed softly and said, “Only your father, Xiao Zhufeng, knows how powerful the Hidden Sage is. I saw him once, but I couldn’t see his appearance that time. However, the aura emanating from his black robe is still fresh in my memory. He is clearly close to a sage …”
Hearing him say this, Xiao Chen raised his head and looked at his slightly pale face, as well as his slightly flickering eyes. It was as if he was recounting the suffocating and oppressive feeling he felt when facing the Hidden Sage back then.
“There’s another thing …”
Bu Yundian slowly recovered from his memories and looked at Xiao Chen. At this moment, his expression became exceptionally solemn. Shui Hanyan knew what he wanted to say, but not many people knew about this matter.
“Senior, what do you want to say?” Xiao Chen asked when he saw that he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Bu Yundian furrowed his brows tightly. At this moment, he seemed to be hesitating whether to say it out loud or not.
In the end, Shui Hanyan took a step forward and looked at Xiao Chen, “Back then, the person who gathered the Ten Saints to hunt down your father was this Hidden Saint …”
“Hidden Sage …”
Xiao Chen clenched his fingers tightly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. After a long time, he said, “Anyone has his own purpose. Then what is the purpose of this Hidden Saint?”
Shui Hanyan said, “Back then, countless people coveted your father’s good fortune. The path of cultivation was originally to seize the good fortune of heaven and earth. With your father’s good fortune, becoming an immortal and becoming a saint in the future was only a thought. How could a hidden saint not covet such good fortune?”
She paused for a moment before continuing. “Of the Ten Saints, only your father can contend against the Hidden Saint. If the Hidden Saint succeeds in seizing your father’s good fortune, then no one among the Ten Saints will be his match. He will also enter the Saint realm and gain a glimpse of the path of longevity. Therefore, most of his goal is to seize the good fortune of the wind …”
“Hmph …”
Xiao Chen sneered and snatched the good fortune of others to prove his own Grand Dao of Longevity. This was the true cultivation world, the cultivation world where the weak preyed on the strong, the cultivation world that was bloody and cruel, and not the world that was decorating peace …
Hearts are evil, even if they become saints, how can they conceal it? That’s why there is Three Corpse Demon in this world, right? The Three Realms and Six Daos are born from the vulgar aura of all living beings …
In this world, how could there be endless demons, endless corpses, only endless hearts and desires …
Xiao Chen took a deep breath and slowly walked to the window. He stared at the pitch-black night outside. Under the darkness, how many invisible shadows and darkness were there?
Hua Weiyang Ning Mei asked, “In that case, isn’t there anyone in this world who knows the true identity of the Hidden Saint? Even the Heavenly Curtain doesn’t know …”
“Not bad …”
Bu Yundian sighed softly and said, “Even Tian Mu does not know the true identity of Hidden Sage. Hence, Hidden Sage is not someone from Tian Mu.”
“This is strange …”
Hua Weiyang lowered his head and pondered, “If a person can do so without anyone knowing his identity and motives, then that person must have more than one goal.” Like Shen Cangming, He was a potential Heavenly Gate with Daoist Youlan’s identity. Later, things were exposed. In the eyes of outsiders, everything he did was for revenge, but no one knew. In fact, revenge was only used to conceal his true purpose. Therefore, it seemed that Hidden Saint chased after Uncle Xiao, making people think that he wanted to seize Uncle Xiao’s good fortune, but his true purpose … ”
Hearing this, Shui Hanyan and Bu Yundian seemed to be enlightened and suddenly understood something. Bu Yundian muttered, “Little girl, you are indeed smart. Why haven’t we thought of this level for so long?”
“Looks like it really is possible …”
Hua Weiyang frowned slightly and slowly walked to Xiao Chen’s side. He said, “Uncle Xiao must have found out about the identity of the hidden saint. Therefore, one of his true goals is to kill people and silence them.”
“Wait … I remember something!”
At this moment, Shui Hanyan’s expression suddenly changed. She said, “Once on the cliff peak, Zhu Feng fought against Hidden Saint. That day, the wind blew especially hard. I faintly heard Zhu Feng say something to Hidden Saint …”
“What do you mean?”
Hua Weiyang turned around and stared at her motionlessly.
At this moment, Shui Hanyan’s face turned slightly pale. She tried her best to recall the scene of that day and slowly said, “Even if you can … manipulate a person’s life with anything, could you still manipulate this world’s life …”
“What does this mean?” Bu Yundian’s brows furrowed as he asked.
Shui Hanyan shook her head, “At that time, I didn’t know what Zhufeng meant by saying this. Later, I didn’t ask him. Soon after, …”
At this point, she did not continue. The entire hall became very quiet. Only the sound of the wind blowing the leaves from outside could be heard.
Xiao Chen raised his head to look at the pitch-black sky. His ears seemed to be filled with a faint voice, “Your father, he is a hero who stands tall, and your mother, she is the gentlest person in the world …”
It was as if he could see the two blurry but familiar figures in his dream with his eyes closed. His father’s life had been too rough. He was originally the most outstanding person in the Xiao Clan, and he was the youngest Ten Saints. His future was limitless. He could only become an Immortal and become a Saint in one thought, but all of this had been taken away by others. Even the Xiao Clan had expelled him from the clan.
Only her mother would accompany him unswervingly. If her mother returned to the Su Clan at that time, she would at least be able to protect herself. However, she did not. She was the most gentle and beautiful person in the world. She did not leave her father at that time, even though his father had nothing left at that time …
However, had the heavens ever treated them with the slightest bit of fairness? The heavens had a trace of pity for them!
At this moment, Xiao Chen’s heart suddenly became hostile again. Whether it was Hidden Saint, Heavenless Palace, or Heavenly Curtain … In the end, none of you were able to escape from those people who were related to that year …
At this moment, when she felt the cold aura coming from his body, Shui Hanyan couldn’t help but frown slightly again. After a long time, she asked, “Have you ever returned to the Xiao Clan or looked for anyone from the Xiao Clan in the past few years?”
As soon as he said that, the atmosphere in the hall became even colder. Even Bu Yundian, who usually looked confused, realized something. No wonder the young man said that he had nothing to do with Xiao Clan at Azure Pine Cliff that day. He winked at Shui Hanyan repeatedly, telling her to stop talking about it.
“Xiao Clan?”
Xiao Chen took a deep breath and looked out of the window at Yun Yue. His voice was slightly cold. “What does Xiao Clan have to do with me?”
Shui Hanyan no longer asked further. However, these past few days, she had gained some understanding of Xiao Chen and Lustless Heaven. She knew about some things that happened to Xiao Chen more than ten or twenty years ago. She couldn’t help but think of Xiao Zhufeng and Su Rou back then. At that time, the two of them were not tolerated by the world, but now …
Shui Hanyan looked at Hua Weiyang. Right now, the righteous sects outside probably couldn’t accommodate her, Xiao Yichen, and the father and son. How could their fortunes be so unfortunate? They couldn’t help but sigh bitterly. They also sighed with admiration for the impermanence of the world and the injustice of good fortune.
“Uh …”
Suddenly, Xiao Chen let out a muffled snort. Shui Hanyan saw that something was wrong with him and immediately walked up to him and supported him, “What happened to you?”
Xiao Chen’s face suddenly turned slightly pale, and a wisp of black gas appeared between his eyebrows. Hua Weiyang knew that it was Three Corpse Demon in his body that had attacked again, but why did it happen so frequently tonight?
“No, this aura is …”
At this moment, Bu Yundian seemed to have sensed something. He moved and came to Xiao Chen. He reached out and grabbed his left hand and rolled his sleeve upwards. As expected, there was a nearly two-inch long black gas on his wrist.
“This is …”
Shui Hanyan couldn’t help but be stunned. Earlier, he and Bu Yundian had sensed such an abnormal aura, which was why they had quickened their pace. Now, it seemed that this aura was indeed there. It was really hidden very deeply. Before, the two of them hadn’t noticed it at all.
“No problem …”
Although Xiao Chen’s face was somewhat pale, he forcefully condensed Genuine energy and suppressed Three Corpse Demon with a wisp of grandmist purple energy in his body.
After a long time, the aura in the hall completely dissipated. Shui Hanyan and Bu Yundian still had expressions of shock on their faces. Although they had already guessed something, they did not dare to think about it.
“It’s Three Corpse Demon.”
In the end, it was up to Hua Weiyang to say those three words.
The expressions on Shui Hanyan and Bu Yundian’s faces changed once again. Even though the two of them had already guessed a bit, hearing Hua Weiyang’s words, their hearts couldn’t help but tremble.
“Why do you have Three Corpse Demon on you?”
The two of them were truly incredulous. Ordinary people might not know how powerful Three Corpse Demon was, but who were the two of them? Don’t you know how powerful and terrifying this Three Corpse Demon is? Could it be that all these years, he had suppressed Three Corpse Demon by himself? He …
At this moment, the two of them looked at Xiao Chen with a look of disbelief. If it was an ordinary person, it would be at most three years, one year and one inch long. Three years later, when the Three Corpse Demons had fully taken shape, they would definitely devour their master. However, how many years had he … suppressed the Three Corpse Demons in his body?
Shui Hanyan and Bu Yundian’s expressions changed drastically. On the other hand, Xiao Chen was very calm. “Not long after I was born, someone injected a Three Corpse Demon into my body.”
“What are you talking about!”
Originally, Shui Hanyan and Bu Yundian thought that he had made too many enemies these past few years, and was accidentally plotted against by someone. His body was infiltrated with a Three Corpse Demon, but he said that Three Corpse Demon was infiltrated shortly after he was born. How was this possible!
The two of them were extremely shocked. What was the Three Corpse Demon? Even though a little baby had just begun to endure it, how long could it survive?
Moreover, it had already been more than 40 years, yet this Three Corpse Demon was still in a dormant state, unable to take shape and erupt. Could it be that he had resisted with his will? No, absolutely impossible …
There was only one possibility! Someone … Someone had suppressed the Three Corpse Demon for him, but who in this world could have such ability?
“It’s my master.”
Xiao Chen closed his eyes, and in his mind, he remembered what happened to Purple Night Peak when he was young, and the day when he was at the Heavenly Gate …
“Today, our master-disciple relationship is over. You can leave now …”