The Primordial Law

Chapter 592 A Century-Old Tragedy
"Thank you for your help earlier! Honghou is very strange; only lightning can restrain him, while my Bright Pure Fire is countered by him."

Wearing a white mask, Nangong stared at the four battle corpse puppets standing beside Li Weiyi, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Li Weiyi was still immersed in the mysterious movement techniques and extraordinary staff skills she had just displayed. In just a few dozen moves, she had actually killed Emperor-Patterned Bone Marquis. Moreover, Emperor-Patterned Bone Marquis had no way to escape.

Beside him, Liu Ye coughed lightly.

Li Weiyi came to her senses: "Let's leave here first."

Far from the battlefield and having shaken off their pursuers, the three stopped on the banks of a large river.

Li Wei asked Nangong about Tang Wanzhou and the Changyu Sword.

"We broke through separately, and a large number of powerful people chased after Sheng Si. She is probably in grave danger. It should be easier for Chang Yujian to escape. He has a killing move and not many pursuers."

Standing on the riverbank, Nangong's radiance was restrained, and the mask on her face was removed, revealing a stunningly beautiful face rarely seen in the world.

Her temperament was neither as heroic as Tang Wanzhou nor as aloof as Qing Zijin, but rather a gentle and graceful beauty.

But at this moment, neither Li Weiyi nor Liu Ye were in the mood to appreciate it.

After asking Tang Wanzhou which direction he had escaped, Li Weiyi prepared to leave: "Xiaowei's martial arts cultivation is top-notch, I'm entrusting Liu Ye to you!"

Li Weiyi had no intention of kidnapping Nangong to go with him to find Tang Wanzhou, even though the other party had a high level of cultivation.

"Confused!"

Nangong said, “You, Li Weiyi, are such an intelligent person, how could you make such a foolish decision? If Shengsi has already escaped, you will not be able to catch up with him at all, and you may even run into the enemy who are chasing him back. If Shengsi has not escaped, he must have already died in battle by now. It is equally dangerous for you to go now.”

"Your four battle-dead puppets are indeed very strong. But how much magical energy is left in their longevity cores?"

"You've only just entered the Ancient Kingdom of Time Ruins, and you're already going to use up this life-saving trump card?"

"Chu Yutian took the Yin-Yang Gong with the swastika symbol from Emperor Bone Marquis, so Bai Chuan's eight array flags are unlikely to be able to defend against it. Once he kills Bai Chuan and is free to deal with him, do you have a chance to escape if you run into him?"

Nangong You sighed, her heart heavy with complex emotions: "I was wrong!"

Li Weiyi and Liu Ye cast strange glances at each other, puzzled.

"I shouldn't have agreed to Bai Chuan's plan to join forces to kill Chu Yutian. If I had stood firmly with Sheng Si, the outcome might have been very different." Nangong was filled with guilt and self-reproach.

Li Weiyi asked, "Is it related to the secrets of the ancient kingdom of the Ruins of Time?"

Whether outside the Valley of Vanyes or just now, Li Weiyi decisively offered his assistance twice.

Outside the Valley of Vanye, it was to help all the Shaoyang Guards escape.

I was just helping her.

Both times he took action, he did so with considerable risk. In Li Weiyi, Nangong truly felt the camaraderie of brothers who would advance and retreat together, and his inner defenses were lowered.

She nodded gently: "Do you remember the footprint you found when we first entered the Ancient Kingdom of Time Ruins? My intention to kill Chu Yutian and destroy the Taiyin Sect and the Wraiths was to cover up the secret behind that footprint. There's more I can't tell you!"

Li Weiyi had a guess in her heart, but she didn't ask further. Everyone has their own secrets.

He then bid farewell to the two of them.

"Are you still going?"

Nangong looked at him with an incomprehensible expression.

Li Weiyi said, "Tang Wanzhou and I are comrades-in-arms who have gone through many hardships together. With this friendship, let alone a dangerous journey of thousands or tens of thousands of miles, even if it is hundreds of thousands or millions of miles, I will definitely go."

Liu Ye's eyes shone with admiration, delighted that she hadn't misjudged him, but she remained silent, all her agreement and emotions expressed in silence.

"By the way! Deputy Guardian went to the Underworld of Tiandu River. She said she only believes the secret messages from your, my, and the Holy Master's whistles." Li Weiyi told her this, naturally hoping that Nangong would go to pick her up.

Nangong frowned slightly: "Li Weiyi, shall we talk alone?"

Li Weiyi glanced at the willow leaves beside her, puzzled.

"I'll go keep watch."

The willow leaves flew away into the distance.

Nangong released his magical energy, enveloping the two of them, and said solemnly, "I must apologize to you again."

Li Weiyi said, "Is it because you used me and Qing Zijin to leave the valley to test whether the enemy has arrived?"

Nangong was surprised that Li Weiyi was so insightful: "If you knew this, why did you help me before?"

“First of all, I left the valley long ago and have nothing to do with you. Secondly, if I was really used and schemed against by you, then it's my own fault for being foolish. Thirdly, you are at least not a spy for the Taiyin Sect,” Li Weiyi said.

Nangong said, "Consider it a favor I owe you, and I will definitely repay it in the future."

Li Weiyi didn't take her promise too seriously and asked, "I can understand scheming against me, after all, we had no prior relationship. But why would you scheme against Qing Zijin? She trusted you so much."

After much deliberation, Nangong sighed repeatedly and whispered, "I can't explain it! I was very conflicted when I made that decision. I tried to convince myself that I was helping her, and that leaving Fanye Valley would mean getting away from danger." "But there was another voice in my heart."

"What was that sound?" Li Weiyi asked when she remained silent for a long time.

Nangong said, "I have suspicions about her and want to test her with this."

Li Weiyi was extremely surprised, never expecting Nangong to give such a reason.

Nangong's eyes were full of distress: "I have to tell you in advance that I don't have any specific reason, but I'm definitely not making excuses for my despicable methods."

"You've been spending a lot of time with her lately, so you must know something about her background, right?"

"I guess so!" Li Weiyi said.

Nangong said, "Logically speaking, as an orphan of the Xianxia Sect, she should have that mysterious curse shadow on her. But I am a sorcerer, and I did not see the curse shadow on her."

"I wanted to help her break the curse, so I specifically asked a senior member of my clan who held a very high position in the Sentinel Army to inquire about the massacre of the Immortal Cloud Sect a hundred years ago."

"I never expected to learn such a terrifying truth."

Li Weiyi said, "Legend has it that the Sentinel Army was responsible for investigating that curse, but the truth has never been made public. Only the Deputy Sentinel Master and the Sentinel Master know what happened."

"If it really is just a simple curse, why not make it public?"

Nangong continued, "The sect leader of the Xianxia Sect is also the sentry of the Dongxu Camp, and the Xianxia Sect is a glorious and prosperous sect. After investigating such a tragic and horrific murder case, it is most reasonable to make the truth public."

Li Weiyi narrowed his eyes, moved, and said, "Is there another hidden story?"

"Every history that is glossed over has a truth that cannot be told to the world. The entire Immortal Cloud Sect was actually slaughtered by the Sentinel Spirit Army and the Demon Kingdom's Imperial Guard in one night, leaving no one alive. Afterwards, they were all dried into mummies in the Heavenly Fire World to create the illusion of a curse. The destruction of the Sentinel Spirit Sect must give the world a satisfactory answer, otherwise who will join the Sentinel Spirit Army in the future? The mummies in the back mountain of Yanjue Mountain are the answer to the world."

Nangong spoke in a low voice, as if he were telling an extremely terrifying story.

A cold wind was blowing along the riverbank.

Li Weiyi felt a chill run down her spine and her scalp tingle; she couldn't accept it: "Why? Why did you do this?"

Nangong said, "According to an elder of my clan, it was the sect leader of the Xianxia Sect who cultivated an ancient and forbidden curse technique and raised a large number of cursed monsters called Taixu Worms in Yanjue Mountain."

"As a result, the sect leader of the Xianxia Sect went astray in his cultivation and was controlled by the cursed monster, turning into a monster himself."

"What's even more terrifying is that all the Taixu Worms raised on Yanjue Mountain have escaped and entered the bodies of many disciples of the Xianxia Sect."

"In order not to disturb the Void Insects and prevent them from spreading throughout the Crimson Bright Realm and then to other living environments in the surrounding area, the Sentinel Army and the Demon Kingdom's Imperial Guard had no choice but to adopt this indiscriminate method, using Heavenly Fire Talismans to take action overnight, directly burning souls and destroying spirits to eliminate them all."

"It is better to kill the wrong person than to let him go."

Li Weiyi said in a deep voice, "Is there really no other way but to spend more time verifying them?"

Nangong said, "An elder of my clan said that they were racing against time at the time, and the Taixu worms reproduced extremely quickly. Not only the Xianxia Sect, but also the entire Chiming Realm lost at least tens of millions of lives in the following three years due to the Taixu worms that were missed."

"A shocking bloody case that has been covered up. All the participants are hiding it. No one wants to, and dares not, reopen the wounds of a hundred years ago."

"Countless people must have been wrongly killed, and many killings could have been avoided, but no one will admit they were wrong, and no one dares to recall it. At most, they will be awakened by nightmares at midnight, with tears streaming down their faces."

Li Weiyi said bitterly, "Are you worried that Qing Zijin will be turned by the Taiyin Sect after she learns the truth? What happened to her father? Why was he able to survive, and why did he later... turn into a dried corpse?"

Nangong said, "It is said that everything is related to her mother. Only those involved know the specifics of what happened. I only know that her mother is a sentry spirit of Dongxu Camp and is still alive."

"What else did you find?"

Knowing all this, Li Weiyi would only feel more sympathy for Qing Zijin and would never doubt her.

Nangong said, "Firstly, don't you think she's too indifferent? She can directly control the thirteen corpses of the Qing family. What junior would be so disrespectful?"

“You should have been to the Qingyi Garden where she lived alone. When I went there, I saw that she had arranged thirteen mummies to sit behind the memorial tablets, and I felt a chilling sense of horror.”

"Can you imagine her living alone in the garden? I feel like she's in a state where she already knows the truth."

"Secondly, why did Tu Mian Gou disappear on the eve of our departure? It is highly likely that a second spy tipped him off."

"Third, have you noticed that no matter how dangerous the situation, she remains very calm and can handle it with great composure? If you were in danger, could you be so calm? A person can only face danger calmly if they are very strong and do not perceive it as danger."

"Furthermore, no one has ever seen the Envoy Luo Yin Ji before, not even today. Chu Yutian and the other Taiyin Envoys have all appeared, so why is she an exception? She must have entered the Ancient Kingdom of the Ruins of Time."

Li Weiyi recalled her encounter with Qing Zijin and gently shook her head: "Impossible... She doesn't seem like a person with deep scheming!"

“I have always believed that a spy can hide because she is the least likely to be suspected.”

Nangong then added, "Of course, it's all just my intuition. I can't produce any evidence, and I even feel guilty for making malicious assumptions. I won't go to the Heavenly Capital River Underworld. You should also be careful; there's no need to put yourself in a precarious situation."

"I don't dare to contact Zhao Tang and Xu Daoqing right now, I'll avoid them if I can. That's all. If you find Saint Si, come to Chun City to find me, use the whistle to communicate. I only recognize the two of you."

(End of this chapter)