I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 659 A Wrong Path (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
The Qin Emperor stared at Jiang Yi without speaking for a long time. Jiang Yi's heart was pounding, but she was extremely determined to know the truth.

"Was that the 'Shangqing String Rhyme Manual' you just used?" the Qin Emperor suddenly asked.

Jiang Yi nodded. The zither technique she used when she was playing with the ice and snow shadow was the one she obtained from the Kunlun Secret Realm.

Qin Di chuckled, her voice filled with disdain. Although she was the evil body that Xiao Tianyin had severed, she possessed all of Xiao Tianyin's memories, and even all of his emotions were inherited by her. Naturally, she knew the whole story and could empathize with him.

Emperor Qin paced back and forth, gazing out of the palace gates towards the summit of Qingyun Mountain.

"Kunlun, the first sect of the human race in the ancient times, laid the foundation for human cultivation, allowing the human race to gradually prosper and eventually become the master of a realm. During that period, all cultivators who were able to ascend to the Immortal Realm came from Kunlun, without exception! Do you think we don't want to follow the rules and ascend step by step? It's Kunlun! That ancient behemoth that has long been decayed but is still high above, controls the Immortal Gate and monopolizes the path to immortality!"

Her gaze swept over Jiang Yi, chilling him to the bone.

"At that time, Kunlun was no longer the holy land of humanity that benefited all living beings. It was rigid, arrogant, resting on the laurels of its ancestors, regarding Beixuan as a barbaric land, and regarding us cultivators who struggled to survive in the north and fought bloody battles with the demon race as mere chickens and dogs! The demon race ravaged the north for hundreds of years, shattering the mountains and rivers and causing immense suffering to the people!"

"We nine, representing the entire Northern Xuan human race, have repeatedly bowed our heads and begged Kunlun for help! What did we ask for? We only hoped that they would extend a helping hand for the sake of being human, and for the sake of Northern Xuan being just a corner of this world, even if it was just to open a passage that would give us a chance to breathe! But what did they do?"

Emperor Qin suddenly flicked his sleeve, and the temperature inside the hall plummeted.

“They stood by indifferently, blocking our escape route, treating our cries and bloodshed as nothing, talking about ‘cause and effect’? That’s nothing but self-righteousness, thinking we’ve tarnished their immortal aura, afraid of being tainted by the karma of our ‘barbaric land’! They monopolized the path to ascension, blocking the possibility of us ‘barbaric’ cultivators to rise, yet they stood idly by while we suffered!”

The Emperor Qin's chest rose and fell slightly, and his tone gradually became as cold and hard as iron.

"The road ahead is blocked, and there is no way back. What else can we do? Sit and wait for death? No! Since the righteous path is blocked, then let us take a crooked path! A dead end that no one before us dared to think of or take! The nine of us risked our lives and the infamy of eternity to hunt down Xuanwu, one of the four guardians of the heavens! By borrowing Xuanwu's blood and true spirit, we forcibly broke through the shackles of this realm and opened the immortal path controlled by Kunlun. Only then could we..."

At this point, the Emperor Qin's voice abruptly stopped.

She looked as if something invisible was choking her, and a crack appeared on her face.

"I was able to... Ah..."

A sarcastic smile curved her lips as she looked at her hands, muttering to herself as if she were insane.

"Ascended? It was them who ascended... those 'good bodies' who cut away our filth and thought themselves pure and flawless, while I... was nothing more than trash and dregs that were stripped away and discarded on her path to success."

The hall fell into a deathly silence, with only an invisible chill flowing through it.

The cold, frosty aura surrounding the Qin Emperor seemed to dim for a moment, revealing an indescribable sorrow and resentment.

She abruptly suppressed all her emotions, as if the momentary loss of composure had never happened. Her gaze returned to Jiang Yi, and she regained her cold and indifferent demeanor, as if she were in complete control.

“Look at that snow,” she suddenly pointed to the snow-capped peaks outside the palace, “Everyone says it’s white, pure and flawless. But is this whiteness truly its original ‘whiteness’? It’s only because everyone in the world who has eyes says it’s ‘white’ that it has become ‘white’. If one day, the world collapses, and all living beings become blind, calling ‘white’ ‘black’, then ‘black’ will become ‘white’!” “When that time comes, everyone in the world will begin to cultivate demonic arts, demonic energy will fill the universe, and demonic behavior will become the norm… At that time, ‘demonic’ can also be called ‘white’, ‘righteous’, and ‘the Way’! Right and wrong, black and white, are nothing more than empty names set by a group of self-righteous blind people pointing at the same chaos, names that can be changed at any time!”

The Emperor Qin withdrew his gaze and focused it back on Jiang Yi, his tone leaving no room for doubt.

"So, put away your so-called 'good and evil' thoughts that have been brainwashed by Kunlun. The Xuanling Qi here is the ladder to heaven that I have prepared for you. It is pure and flawless. Just focus on your cultivation. I will personally polish the body I need to perfection. I hope you will not be ungrateful!"

Jiang Yi was shaken. The Qin Emperor's accusations against Kunlun contained a great deal of information, causing her thoughts to churn.

She composed herself and seized the last opportunity to ask, "Your Majesty, where exactly does this profound spiritual energy come from?"

This is also a crucial question. From the moment Jiang Yi entered the Nine Provinces, he discovered that the Xuanling Qi could isolate the demonic Qi. The barrier surrounding the Nine Provinces was not a man-made array, but rather the result of the Xuanling Qi, which prevented the demonic Qi from invading inwards.

She has been cultivating with Xuanling Qi for the past two years, and after careful examination and analysis, she has indeed found no drawbacks.

"enough!"

The Emperor's voice suddenly turned stern, carrying a warning tone.

"I have said what I needed to say. As for what I shouldn't ask, don't utter a word! Knowing too much will not benefit you at this moment. Someone in the Heavenly Sound Platform will tell you what to do. Go now!"

Before she finished speaking, the Qin Emperor's figure, formed from wind and snow, instantly became blurry, like a cloud scattered by a strong wind, and quickly disappeared from the spot without leaving any trace of her presence, as if she had never appeared at all.

In the empty and cold hall, only Jiang Yi remained.

Deep inside the hall, where there was originally a wall, a door silently opened, behind which was a winding passage paved with ten-thousand-year-old cold jade, leading to the core cultivation area of ​​the Heavenly Sound Platform. Profound spiritual energy, several times purer and more concentrated than that outside, was emanating from the depths of that passage.

Jiang Yi looked at the open door, then at the place where Qin Di had disappeared, her eyes filled with a solemn and complicated expression.

She never imagined that behind the Nine Emperors' ruthless hunt for Xuanwu, there was also a reason related to Kunlun.

If the Qin Emperor's evil body wasn't lying, back then it must have been a time when Kunlun was gradually declining and struggling to survive, when it received a plea for help from the Nine Emperors of Beixuan, hoping that Kunlun could help resist the demon race.

Kunlun refused, because Kunlun itself was too large, and to protect the foundation laid by its ancestors, it could not afford any further losses.

The nine emperors turned the tide and suppressed the demon race, but were then blocked on their path to ascension.

The grudges and causes of the past are now difficult to clarify, so Jiang Yi put them out of her mind and strode towards the Heavenly Sound Platform.

(End of this chapter)