The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 431 How dare she openly oppose the Xuan Clan!
The crowd dispersed, and a Taoist priest dressed in a dark blue, wide-sleeved, diagonally-buttoned robe embroidered with cranes, wearing a Hunyuan headscarf, with silver hair, long eyebrows, and a long beard, walked over surrounded by people. This was none other than Master Zhishang, who had predicted that Langjiuchuan was a demon.

His eyes flashed like lightning as he stared intently at Lang Jiuchuan's face. His brow twitched, and his fingers moved in his sleeves, calculating. He was right; this woman was destined to die young and could not possibly be alive. Yet she was alive, which was a shock to the fate of the Great Dan Kingdom. She would plunge the Great Dan into turmoil.

Anything that plunges the people into turmoil must be something heretical or evil.

Lang Jiuchuan looked at him, his eyes icy cold, and said, "The Taoist priests of the Quanzhen Sect emphasize the dual cultivation of body, mind, and inner alchemy. This old fellow Taoist, instead of cultivating in the deep mountains to seek immortality, has entered the mortal world and used his words to slander a young girl like me, every word of which is meant to crush me to death. May I ask, Taoist priest, what kind of Tao do you cultivate? Aren't you afraid of creating bad karma through your speech and failing to achieve your path to immortality?"

"I cultivate the human path." Master Zhishang, holding his whisk, met her gaze. "You were destined to die, yet you defied yin and yang, and were possessed by a strange spirit..."

"So what if I was destined to die young? The Great Dao is fifty, and the Heavenly Cycle is forty-nine. There is always a glimmer of hope. I met a good teacher and a benefactor, and I seized that glimmer of hope. So there is no reason for me to die!" Lang Jiuchuan interrupted him: "Let's not even talk about what evidence you have to say that I am against Yin and Yang. Even if I am against Yin and Yang, look at the Heavenly Dao. Has it allowed me to exist? If Heaven did not allow it, it should have sent down a tribulation of lightning to destroy my soul when I possessed it. What is the fact?"

Master Zhishang frowned.

"You call me a demon? Do I possess any demonic aura? If I were truly a demon, you could all join forces to kill me, but I am not evil..." Lang Jiuchuan's eyes flashed with a cold light: "Then your purpose in coming here today is to eliminate and suppress dissidents, to act lawlessly. Don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Her aura suddenly surged, and the copper coin sword in her hand once again unleashed a dragon-like sword energy, its blade vibrating with a humming sound, its imposing power as vast as a mountain.

Evil spirits?

Such a righteous and murderous aura would prevent them from uttering a single word, even if they wanted to lie through their teeth. If this was also called demonic energy, wouldn't they all be demons? After all, even if not everyone had a copper coin sword, seven out of ten people would use it as a magical weapon.

After all, it is the most common and widespread. However, the opponent's weapon has a stronger aura, so it is probably a high-level magic weapon.

Lang Jiuchuan was imposing and his intimidating presence was overwhelming. No one dared to move or argue in front of the Marquis's mansion.

What shocked Master Zhishang and the others even more was that at her age, her aura was already so profound. If she was truly possessed by a strange soul, then what kind of great power must she have been in her previous life?
The two sides seemed frozen in place, and the air suddenly solidified.

Tantai Cong was somewhat anxious. He received a wink from a middle-aged Taoist priest next to Zhishang and said sternly, "So what if you have a copper coin sword? Who doesn't know that evil spirits are masters of disguise? Fellow Taoists, if we don't eliminate her today, are we going to wait for her to become a great threat, shake the foundation of our Great Dan Kingdom, and put the people in danger?"

Everyone instinctively looked at Zhi Shang, for their cultivation levels were far inferior to his.

Lang Jiuchuan's eyes flashed with frost as he looked at Tantai Cong, who was speaking with righteous indignation, and he smiled sarcastically: "Fine, fine, so it doesn't matter whether I am a demon or an evil one. It's righteous for everyone to gather around the mansion and bully the weak."

If that's the case, then we can't blame her!
Lang Jiuchuan sheathed her copper coin sword, formed hand seals, and a dazzling bolt of lightning shot up from her fingertips and flew out, transforming into thousands of electric snakes that hung above everyone's heads. The lightning made everyone's scalp tingle, and the stray hairs that were not fully tied up stood up.

Tantai Cong was the first to be hit. His golden crown, made of some unknown material, attracted lightning that sparked and broke off with a bang. His hair, which was covered by the crown, came loose, and he was trembling all over from the electric shock, his eyes rolling back.

"Stop hurting people!" Zhi Shang flicked his whisk, his face cold as he rapidly formed hand seals and channeled the faint lightning intent from his whisk, then looked at Lang Jiuchuan with horror. "If she's not a demon, she's a demoness! Let's attack!" Seeing this, the various Daoists were alarmed and began to form hand seals and chant incantations, sending several talismans transforming into fire snakes that attacked Lang Jiuchuan.

"You're shameless and stubborn." Lang Jiuchuan's expression was cold and stern. He pressed down with his hand, and the electric wires that were already hanging over them fell down.

Screams rang out one after another, and the air was filled with the stench of burnt hair, mixed with a strange smell of scorched flesh.

"If you can't even withstand a single bolt of lightning, are you all demons?" Lang Jiuchuan's lips curled up in a smirk. He raised his hand and made another hand seal, his fingertips flashing with lightning. Just as he was about to deliver a heavy blow, a clear shout came from afar.

"Wait a minute, do it!"

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Lang Jiuchuan looked over and saw a figure in black rushing through the air at incredible speed, followed by a group of people.

Gong Qi arrived in a fit of rage.

Lang Jiuchuan looked regretful and snorted. He had arrived just in time, but...

She flicked the ball of lightning between her fingers onto the ground. With a loud bang, the ground shattered, and the lightning energy spread. Zhi Shang and the others lost their footing, feeling a tingling and numb sensation in their legs, and fell to the ground.

Gong Qi: "..."

He landed in front of Lang Jiuchuan, glared at her helplessly, then looked at Zhi Shang and the others. Seeing that they were only in a sorry state and had not been seriously injured, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He thought Lang Jiuchuan would go on a killing spree, but luckily she still had some sense!
"Make way, make way, don't block the way here." Shen Qinghe also led the people from the Inspection Department, panting as they caught up.

Lang Jiuchuan looked at them and asked, "Fellow Daoist Gong, did the Surveillance Bureau come to arrest me, this evil spirit, on the orders of this young prince?"

Gong Qi felt a headache coming on from the sarcasm in her words and said, "Fellow Daoist Lang, it's all a misunderstanding..."

"Misunderstanding?" Lang Jiuchuan coldly interrupted him, pointing at Zhishang and saying, "He said I am a scourge to the country, a demon who harms the fate of Da Dan, and wreaks havoc on the people, causing rampant rumors in the streets, causing great slander and damage to me and even the Marquis's mansion behind me. Is it all resolved with a simple misunderstanding? I am just a woman, merely a cultivator, how could I be a heretic demon? If I am, aren't you all? I will not accept this so-called explanation of misunderstanding!"

Tantai Cong spat out a mouthful of black blood and said, "You witch, how dare you compare yourself to us?"

"I won't fight, can I kill instead?" Lang Jiuchuan walked towards him, his gaze sharp as a knife: "Why don't you call your fiancée to save you and see if she will? It would also let everyone see whether she is good or evil, human or demon?"

Her eyes flashed with a cold light, which made Tantai Cong's face turn ashen and his body stiffen. It was back again. That familiar killing intent had reappeared on her body. If there weren't so many people around, she probably really would have killed him.
Tantai Cong's mind was buzzing. How dare she? He was backed by the Tantai clan, which was both a Xuan clan and a royal clan. He was about to marry the young master of another Xuan clan, the Rong family. How dare she go against him?
No, how dare she openly oppose the Xuan Clan!
(End of this chapter)