Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

now.

Bai Yuan walked to the table, first bowed towards the tablet, then brushed away the dust on the stone platform, revealing the incomplete array pattern underneath.

Then, she picked up a drop of blood with her fingernail, suspended it above the array pattern, and gently flipped it over to let it drip.

This is Jiang Rao's blood.

Given her previous experiences with Jiang Rao, it wasn't difficult for her to collect a blood sample from the latter. With the blood of these direct descendants of the Jiang family, she could naturally activate the array pattern and allow Jiang Taixu's spirit to emerge.

Theoretically, if Bai Yuan had a little more blood essence, he could even open the hidden formation on the ground of the Jiang family's ancestral home, revealing the bronze door leading to the Jiang family's underground palace. However, if he did that, Youhuo Diting would not sit idly by, and now, it might be able to turn a blind eye.

Bang-!

As the blood seeped into the stone slabs, the two copper lamps on both sides of the table suddenly burst into flames, and the flames in mid-air intertwined to form the Jiang family emblem.

Then, the golden mirror placed on the stone table began to fluctuate, and blurry images appeared on the mirror surface. Then a shadow emerged from it and projected in front of the stone table, turning into the image of a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance and wearing a dark yellow robe.

He first glanced around silently, then looked down at Bai Yuan with a look of doubt and scrutiny: "You... are not a descendant of the Jiang family. Who are you?"

——The reason why he lowered his head was because there was a big difference in height between Jiang Taixu and Bai Yuan. One was close to 1.9 meters tall, while the other was a lolita less than 1.5 meters tall. The difference was more than two heads, so they could only talk to each other in this posture.

"Ah."

Bai Yuan raised her head and smiled serenely, "Master Jiang is truly a forgetful person... Then let me introduce myself again. I am Bai Yuan, and I am also Jiang Rao's master."

"Ok?"

Jiang Taixu frowned slightly.

At this moment, he was just a remnant of Jiang Taixu's spirit, a spirit left over from more than twenty years ago, when the Jiang family hadn't yet been destroyed. He had no memories of his former self, much like Youhuo Diting. However, he still knew his daughter's name. Add to that the prophecy he'd learned from the Tianji Pavilion...

So Jiang Taixu soon realized something, but he was still not sure for a moment: "The 'Jiang Rao' you are talking about is..."

"Yes, it's the patriarch's daughter. She's already 27 years old."

Chapter 132 Bai Yuan's Memory

“…Twenty-seven?”

When Jiang Taixu heard Bai Yuan's words, he was obviously stunned.

He came to the Jiang family's ancestral land about twenty-one years ago, which was the year before the Jiang family was destroyed.

At that time, Jiang Rao was just a child of five or six years old.

The same goes for his younger brother Jiang Cheng.

——According to the setting mentioned in the "Asking the Immortal" expansion pack, these two are actually a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, but Jiang Rao came out a few minutes earlier than the latter, so she became the older sister.

——For cultivators, especially those of the older generation who have been famous for a long time and are over 400 years old and have reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, giving birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, is an absolutely low-probability event.

Furthermore, although Jiang Taixu had a premonition of genocide when he installed the [Dayan Five Elements Wheel], both his own premonition and the prediction made by the Tianji Pavilion were only accurate to the extent that "the Jiang family might suffer a disaster in the near future." They didn't know where this "disaster" came from, what caused it, or even whether it was a man-made disaster or a natural disaster...

Naturally, there is no way to deal with it in advance.

Those who had old ties to the Jiang family couldn't go over to help in advance. After all, they each had their own things to do, and they couldn't just stay in the Jiang family's territory and wait for the enemy to attack.

"So... the Jiang family is indeed destroyed?"

Jiang Taixu vaguely realized this, but didn't ask directly. Instead, he cast his gaze back at Bai Yuan, looked her over, and said in a deep voice, "You just said... 'Introduce me again'? What did that mean? Could it be that you and I have met before?"

"But I've never heard of the name 'White Kite'."

"Moreover, you look like a child, and your cultivation is only at the ninth level of the Golden Core. How could you become Rao'er's master?"

"Unless... the technique you're practicing has the ability to rejuvenate?"

As the last patriarch of the Jiang family, Jiang Taixu was a powerful man who had cultivated to the fifth level of the Spirit Transformation Realm during his lifetime. Naturally, he was not someone who could be fooled with just a few words.

Although the "Jiang Taixu" here is not the real body, the time when he left his divine consciousness was not far from the time when the Jiang family was destroyed, so the experiences of the two are not much different.

As far as he could remember, he had never seen the person called "Bai Yuan".

On the contrary, there was a rising star in the magic world, and he had heard of him once or twice. This person practiced a technique that could rejuvenate and reverse life and death, and his name also happened to contain the word "Yuan" -

"Thirty years ago... oh, for those of you outside, it should have been fifty years ago. A master of the demonic path appeared in the cultivation world, 'Master Xuelian.' This person acted arrogantly and ruthlessly, causing a bloody storm in the cultivation world for a time, leaving many orthodox sects helpless. However, he was ultimately murdered by his own disciples, becoming a legend in the cultivation world."

Jiang Taixu said this, looking intently at Bai Yuan's expression, and slowly said: "Your name is so similar to that of the demonic female cultivator who killed her master to attain enlightenment. Could it be that..."

"Yes, I am the demon cultivator you are talking about."

Bai Yuan admitted it straightforwardly.

After all, there was no point in keeping this kind of thing secret. Once Jiang Rao arrived, everything would be clear. And according to her "whitewashing plan", this must be made known to Jiang Taixu, even if it would arouse the latter's vigilance.

Just when Jiang Taixu narrowed his eyes and looked alert.

Bai Yuan spoke again, his expression remaining calm. "I originally thought that Patriarch Jiang would have known about this long ago, but it seems my status is too low for the Patriarch to remember... In fact, my connection with the Jiang family doesn't just extend back to the past twenty years; it may even date back much further."

"It's hard to explain these things in a short time, and words alone are not enough to prove anything. So, please ask the Patriarch to personally review my memories. Perhaps after reading them, you will understand why I am here."

"Also, everything Rao'er has experienced in the past twenty years is also contained in this memory."

"You must also want to see what your daughter looks like now, right?"

As he spoke, Bai Yuan raised two fingers, lightly touched the center of his eyebrows, and then, with a ray of starlight condensed on his fingertips, he reached out to Jiang Taixu.

"?"

Jiang Taixu was obviously stunned for a moment.

After all, such an act of actively opening one's sea of ​​consciousness to allow others to view one's memories was rare among cultivators. This was because it was extremely dangerous for the person sharing it, and the slightest mistake could potentially affect their soul. Unless there was a high degree of mutual trust, ordinary people would never do such a thing.

Especially for the demon cultivators who are used to intrigue and deception.

For a few seconds, Jiang Taixu even suspected that Bai Yuan was cheating, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of sharing memories to devour the soul left behind by him.

But if that's the case...

The one underground shouldn't just sit there and watch, right?

"Master Jiang, don't worry too much."

"When I came here, I had already met Senior Youhuo Diting. It was with his permission that I came here to meet you. Moreover, among those traveling with me is a senior from the Ji family who has reached the Return to Void Realm. Even if Patriarch Jiang doesn't trust me as a demon cultivator, he can at least trust the people of the Ji family, right?"

Bai Yuan raised his head and spoke sincerely.

After hearing her words, Jiang Taixu was silent for a moment, and seemed to use his soul to sense something - with the current state of his soul, it might be a bit difficult for him to fight with others. If a real fight broke out, he would probably only be able to exert the level of the first or second level of the Spirit Transformation Realm or even the Nascent Soul Realm. However, in terms of perception, he still maintained a level close to that of his original body.

Well... there are indeed two auras sitting outside the village.

One of them was the aura of Youhuo Diting, so he was considered an acquaintance; the other one was unknown, but he was indeed in the Return to Void Realm.

The Ji family's Return to Void Realm...

Could it be that the head of the family, Ji Taimei, has come in person?

Or is it that an elder of the Ji family who has been in seclusion for many years has come out after many years?

But why would someone from the Ji family be mixed up with the "Blood Kite"? Could it be that in the twenty years since his death, the landscape of the cultivation world has undergone some unexpected changes?

Jiang Taixu's mind was in turmoil, and he finally raised his hand and touched Bai Yuan's fingertips.

In an instant.

A huge wave of consciousness surged in both of their minds. Fragments of memory streaked across the sky like meteors, weaving and connecting them together to form a series of continuous images.

……

The first scene is set in a gloomy valley.

The arrogant demon "Master Xuelian" was hunted by his enemies and fled back to his cave with a seriously injured body. He decided to refine all of his dozens of disciples into human pills and then take them to quickly recover his lost vitality.

This "human pill" method was the specialty of "Blood Refining." He was able to reach the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage, nearing the level of Divine Transformation, in just a few decades, despite having above-average aptitude. The reason for this was because he consumed three or four hundred "human pills." Behind each pill was the life of a cultivator.

However, this time, "Xue Lian" was negligent for a moment and was ambushed by a red-clothed girl among his own disciples. Instead, he was sealed into the alchemy furnace by her and refined into a black "Rong Xin Dan".

Afterwards, the girl in red swallowed the pill and left alone, leaving behind the sect with a river of blood and the infamy of "killing the master to prove the truth."

……

The second scene is the ancient town of Xihuang located in Yunhezhou.

The red-dressed woman, now transformed from a young girl into a queen, was hunted down by a large number of cultivators dispatched by the Blood Origin Sect for killing the only son of a Blood Origin Sect elder. They fled for eight hundred miles, engaging in dozens of battles along the way, resulting in casualties on both sides and causing numerous mortals to suffer unforeseen disasters.

Just as the red-dressed woman was about to be captured, a figure in yellow descended from the sky, killing several leading Blood Origin Sect Nascent Soul Elders and slaying most of the remaining demonic cultivators. Only a few, sensing the situation, slipped away, preventing the entire force from being annihilated.

The man had also sensed the evil spirit from the woman in red, but because she was already dying, he decided not to waste his energy and let her fend for herself.

When he was about to fly away on his sword.

The woman in red struggled to her feet from a pool of blood, revealing a pale yet stubborn face. "I am Bai Yuan... I will repay your kindness in sparing me your life today."

"……snort."

Jiang Taixu snorted coldly and left without looking back.

For him, there was no need to listen to this kind of thanks from the demon cultivator. Moreover, judging by the other party's serious injuries, he was lucky to survive the night.

……

When he saw this, Jiang Taixu felt a little uncomfortable, yet familiar.

Before he could delve deeper, the scene continued to flow downwards—

……

The third scene is Cangwu County twenty years ago.

A dark rainy night, a lonely dead city, a blood-stained bluestone road...

The young Jiang Rao was chased by two members of the Shentu tribe. He fled in panic and was about to fall into the hands of the enemy.

It was that familiar figure in red who darted out from the shadows of the crooked pavilion. With a single move of swordsmanship, enhanced by the "Clear Sword Intention," he defeated Shentu Jixue, a ninth-grade Nascent Soul cultivator. Then, carrying Jiang Rao, he ran furiously. He stopped and fought several times, but managed to carve a bloody path between two equally powerful opponents and escape into the bell tower.

……

Act 4...

It was already inside the dark underground palace of the Yinyue Sect.

It was still the woman in red who trained the girl day after day with an attitude that was strict and almost cruel.

For twenty years, the orphan of the Jiang family learned to read and write, practiced swordsmanship, handled sect affairs, and traveled among the major sects as an undercover agent... Gradually, he shed his initial naiveté and became strong and decisive, with a flame of hatred burning in his cold and deep eyes.

——That hatred was directed not only at the bandits who had destroyed his family, but also at the enemies who were mistreating and exploiting him.

The screen continues to switch.

What appears at this time is what happened after Bai Yuan replaced his predecessor:

In the Wunian underground palace, a raging fire fell from the sky.

In Qixia Town, Bai Yuan, under the identity of "Yu Qiuming", confronted Shao An of the Xueyuan Sect.

And when they met in the cabin, Bai Yuan explained everything that had happened before, especially the "reason" for arranging Jiang Rao to go undercover in the Tianyuan Sword Sect, and the phrase "Parents who love their children will make long-term plans for them"...

When I heard this.

Jiang Taixu was shocked and his whole body was filled with shock.

Because of his turbulent mind, the memory scenes that had been playing for a long time also began to waver, and eventually turned into nothing and disappeared.

Then, there was a long period of silence.

Bai Yuan exhaled lightly, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

—Frankly, sharing memories with others is quite exhausting and carries considerable risk. If she hadn't fallen from the Spiritual Transformation Realm and undergone two transformations, her soul strength would have been extraordinary, and she'd probably be sweating more than just her forehead. She might have suffered some hidden spiritual damage.

Jiang Taixu stared at Bai Yuan, memories churning in his mind.

The images seen in this way come from the depths of the other person's memory and are theoretically true.

Even if it was a fabrication, the other party must have had in-depth contact with Jiang Rao, Shentu Jixue, Shentu Jialuo, and others. Otherwise, it would be impossible to construct those experiences so realistically. As a result, Jiang Taixu read through it all without finding a single flaw, especially the part about his own daughter.

The reason why I said "almost" was because there was indeed a small doubt, which was slightly different from Jiang Taixu's own memory -

"you……"

Jiang Taixu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Bai Yuan with a complicated look: "Back then... I really did help you once unintentionally. Is that why you risked your life to rescue Rao'er from the Shentu family?"

"Yes."

Bai Yuan nodded slightly. "Although I am a demon cultivator, I also clearly distinguish between gratitude and resentment. Perhaps in the eyes of the Jiang family master back then, I was just a nobody, and there was no need for him to even glance at me. But if the Jiang family master hadn't intervened, I would have been captured by the Blood Origin Sect and become a pile of bones in the Blood Origin Sect's blood pool. I would have no chance of living until now."

"Since Patriarch Jiang once spared my life, I will naturally help Patriarch Jiang save his life."