Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

"..."

Quiet.

After a moment, I heard "Puff——"

Bai Yuan smiled.

The silver bell-like laughter gradually became more unrestrained, echoing in the small wooden house.

Jiang Rao pursed her lips slightly, seeming a little unhappy, but she didn't dare to get angry: "Master, why are you laughing?"

"I'm laughing at your overestimation of your own abilities and your wild imagination!"

Bai Yuan stopped laughing, a stern aura emerging from her charming face. "When did you develop the illusion that your master coveted your bloodline? If I wanted to take your bloodline away, would I have waited until today? Humph, the eight ancient clans... each of them has a resounding name, but in fact, they are just named after the fact. If I were born a thousand years earlier, I would probably have added a ninth clan to the eight!"

"Only those mediocre people with limited knowledge, no perseverance, and no heart, would value bloodline so highly, relying on it to change their fate!"

"This……"

Jiang Rao obviously didn't expect to hear such words from Bai Yuan, and was shocked for a moment.

But soon, she seemed to have thought of something and her expression became strange.

"what happened?"

Bai Yuan noticed Jiang Rao's expression.

"..."

Facing Bai Yuan's question, the girl hesitated for a moment, and finally whispered, "Since Master believes that bloodline is useless, then... why did he do that to Senior Sister back then?"

Bai Yuan: “…”

To be honest, if my predecessor was standing here, he would have been questioned to death.

Because the original "Blood Kite" was indeed coveting the bodies of several disciples——

Whether it is the [Chengxin Sword Bone] in Qingluo's body, or Ye Shuang'er's "Poisonous Spirit Body", or even Jiang Rao's Jiang family bloodline, they are all within her target.

The reason why he didn't take action was, on the one hand, because Jiang Rao was too useful. If he killed her, it would be difficult to find another such a smart and capable tool; on the other hand, it was because the Jiang family's bloodline was very involved, and it was involved with the Xueyuan Sect, the Shentu Family, and even the demon clan. The predecessor was also worried that doing so would attract the attention of the other party, which would cause endless troubles.

but……

Now Bai Yuan could refute with confidence: "Are you talking about the 'Chengxin Sword Bone'?"

"There are many things in this world that cannot be judged by appearances alone. What you see with your eyes may deceive you. The Qingluo incident is a case in point."

"I did take this 'Purifying Heart Sword Bone' from her body, but my original intention was not to keep it for myself, but to save her. Because the existence of this sword bone will cause severe burden on other parts of the body, or even great damage. If no measures are taken, she may die soon. I wanted to save her, but unfortunately..."

Bai Yuan sighed, took out the [Clarifying Heart Sword Bone] from his waist, and showed it to Jiang Rao: "I know you may not believe me, but over the years, I have always carried this sword bone with me, thinking of the past... Look, it's right here."

Jiang Rao's attention was immediately drawn to it.

She didn't actually know what the [Clarifying Heart Sword Bone] looked like; after all, she had never even met Senior Sister Qingluo. However, even if she hadn't seen it, it was hard to associate a bone so pregnant with such astonishing sword intent with anything else.

Therefore, Jiang Rao looked a little bit unbelievable at this moment, and looked up at Bai Yuan:

"So, you didn't transplant this bone onto yourself..."

"Ah."

Bai Yuan smiled broadly, his expression once again revealing the arrogance of the "Demon Lord." "Everyone says that the Blood Kite Demon Lord is cruel and violent, and has killed countless people. This is not wrong. But even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, so how could I be so cruel as to kill my own disciple?"

not to mention……

[Clarifying Heart Sword Bone], so what? The path that my master cultivates is the true smooth road. Time has become an invincible road, so why borrow the bones of others! "

【Volatility value +500! 】

【Volatility value +500! 】

Two prompts flashed in succession.

Bai Yuan originally thought that it was because his dialogue skills were too superb that Jiang Rao was so shocked that his fluctuation value exploded twice in a row. However, he then noticed something was wrong, stood up, walked to the door of the wooden house, and opened the door directly.

As soon as the door opened, Ye Shuang'er was seen tiptoeing on the door panel, eavesdropping on the movements inside. At this moment, as the door panel opened, the little girl lost her balance and fell inside, falling into Bai Yuan's arms.

"ah!"

Ye Shuang'er screamed, flapped her arms wildly, and hugged Bai Yuan.

After she regained her balance, she scratched her head shyly and turned the subject around: "Um... Master, Second Senior Sister, I didn't mean to do that. I was just worried that you would... fight like you did in the secret realm, so I came to check on you..."

"If there's nothing else, I'll go talk to Baymax first!"

Having said that, Ye Shuang'er avoided the sight of Bai Yuan and Jiang Rao, turned around and left in a hurry, closing the door of the wooden house again.

Wait for the wooden door to close.

Bai Yuan turned his back to Jiang Rao, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Although the lines just now were designed by her, and she had practiced them repeatedly in front of the mirror before coming here, but...

What's going on with this illusion of being caught by a family member as if I had a second-year syndrome attack?

After Ye Shuang'er's disturbance, Bai Yuan didn't want to continue the previous topic, so he turned around, put away the [Clarifying Heart Sword Bone], coughed lightly, and continued:

"As an orphan of the Jiang family, you should be familiar with the affairs of the ancient cultivation clan."

"The reason the eight ancient cultivation clans hold such high status in the cultivation world is simply because their ancestors all produced powerful individuals who reached the Celestial Realm. The legacy of this Celestial Realm was passed down through their bloodlines, allowing their descendants to possess cultivation talents far exceeding those of ordinary people and a higher cultivation ceiling from the moment they were born."

"This legacy is a kind of protection, but at the same time, it is also a kind of constraint."

"Because their bloodline advantage was too obvious, many members of the eight ancient clans lost their former ambition over the long years and became arrogant. They only wanted to live a carefree life resting on their ancestral heritage, forgetting that no matter how big a gold mountain is, it will eventually be emptied.

"If no new Heavenly Man Realm appears, then the potential contained in the bloodline will be diluted sooner or later until it becomes no different from that of an ordinary person."

That's right.

What Bai Yuan said is exactly the background setting mentioned in the "Asking the Immortal" expansion pack, and it is also the current situation faced by the Jiang family and several other major ancient cultivation clans.

Even the Ji family is the same.

Although many people believed that "Ji Lingyun" had already cultivated to the Heavenly Man Realm, from various indications, this Ji family saintly lady probably did not reach the same level as the Ji family ancestor. Otherwise, she would not have used the method of deceiving the heavens to reincarnate as Ji Tingxue and cultivate again.

If the Ji family did not own the "Ancient Tea Tree of Enlightenment", a spiritual plant that can greatly increase one's qualifications, the Ji family might not be much stronger than other ancient clans.

Bai Yuan continued to speak:

"...This 'blood thinning phenomenon' did not appear in recent decades. Instead, there were signs thousands of years ago. It was noticed by a few perceptive people, who then took many measures to try to reverse this trend.

“Some people have turned their attention to the spiritual roots of heaven and earth, hoping to cultivate external objects to help themselves improve their potential and achieve celestial status;

“Some people have developed ‘family patterns’ that can activate bloodline power, and other secret techniques to store bloodline power;

"Some people have also developed a tricky method, which is to devour the blood of others to achieve a leap in the blood level of a small number of people. They call it a 'ritual of sacrifice.'"

"At first, they only devoured the bloodline power of their own clan, especially those with mediocre potential, as consumables to support those with more superior qualifications. But later, when the number of their own clan began to decrease, they turned their attention to people from other clans, especially the other clans of the Eight Ancient Clans."

——The one who cultivated the “spiritual roots of heaven and earth” was naturally the Ji family.

——And the ones who promoted the "sacrifice ritual" were naturally the Shentu family.

Bai Yuan recounted this old secret slowly and calmly.

When Jiang Rao heard this, he had already guessed something: "So, this is why the Jiang family was destroyed?"

"Yes."

Bai Yuan nodded. "Although the Jiang family has gradually declined after thousands of years of inheritance, it is still one of the eight ancient clans, with hundreds of members, many of whom are above the Nascent Soul Realm, and several are at the Spiritual Transformation Realm. If we can use the secret technique of 'ritual' to combine their bloodlines and produce a member at the Heavenly Man Realm, it may be difficult, but the probability of producing one at the Return to Void Realm is still very high."

Among the eight ancient cultivation clans, there are those who reach the Return to Void Realm, but their numbers are rare, and not every clan or generation has one. In most cases, the Spiritual Transformation Realm is the apparent ceiling. Therefore, adding one more person to the Return to Void Realm is a significant improvement for a clan or sect.

As long as they didn't provoke the largest forces, they could basically do whatever they wanted. Sects like the Qingxuan Sect and the Yinyue Sect, which only had one or two people in the Spiritual Transformation Realm, could be wiped out at any time.

Well... to be exact, the Hidden Moon Sect currently doesn't even have a single Spiritual Transformation Realm cultivator. If the Qingxuan Sect had acted more decisively and sent their leader, Qing Lingzi, to carry out the assassination, Bai Yuan wouldn't have been able to escape, and the Hidden Moon Sect would have been removed from the Six Demonic Sects long beforehand.

"That night twenty years ago, the Blood Origin Sect and its allies unleashed their elite forces, swiftly annihilating the Jiang family with the force of thunder. They extracted the blood of most of the Jiang clan members, or took them as captives back to the Netherworld Blood Pool to slowly refine them. However, because the Jiang clan had so many members and thousands of years of heritage, a few were able to escape."

"This includes you, Jiang Cheng, and your sister Jiang Xiu."

"You three are all the biological descendants of Jiang Taixu, the head of the Jiang family. You are also members of the most pure bloodline in the entire Jiang family. If we fail to obtain your bloodline, the gains of this operation will be greatly reduced. Moreover... the Blood Origin Sect also discovered a secret after killing Jiang Taixu."

Having said that, Bai Yuan paused:

"Legend has it that the Jiang family possesses a treasure known as the [Dayan Five Elements Wheel], which was forged from a finger bone of the first Jiang family patriarch, a man who had reached the Celestial Realm in ancient times. Before their death, every Jiang family patriarch would seal their remaining blood and essence within the wheel for future generations to use in critical moments.

"But for some reason, Jiang Taixu, the current patriarch, did not use this treasure. Instead, he sent it out of the clan territory in advance and placed it in a little-known place."

"Therefore, the Blood Origin Sect, which failed to find this treasure, can only focus its attention on you siblings. Even after twenty years, we are still obsessed with finding your whereabouts."

The whole story became clear.

Jiang Rao began to digest this information silently.

the other side.

Bai Yuan was also thinking secretly.

She actually had a little information that she hadn't revealed yet—

That is, the location of the [Dayan Five Elements Wheel], which the Xueyuan Sect and the Shentu Clan had dug deep underground for twenty years but still failed to find, was no secret to her. This was because it was a very important dungeon in "Asking the Immortal" and was also the place where Jiang Rao's exclusive cheat was provided.

This is not surprising.

After all, as the "destined heroine", she always has some special treatment. It is impossible for her to practice as hard and step by step as ordinary people, otherwise she will not be able to keep up with the players.

Just like Qingluo's "Divine Phoenix Bloodline", Ye Shuang'er's "Poisonous Gu Spirit Body", and Ji Tingxue's "Reincarnated Saint", Jiang Rao's exclusive plug-in is the [Five Elements Wheel] that seals the essence and blood of Jiang Taixu and all generations of Jiang family masters. As long as it is obtained and activated, Jiang Rao can unlock the Jiang family's unique "Five Elements Divine King Body", thereby soaring his cultivation level by leaps and bounds.

However, getting this thing is not an easy task, and there are many dangers in the process.

As for why Jiang Taixu didn't just use the [Five Elements Wheel]...

This was because before the incident, he had visited the Tianji Pavilion and asked the Pavilion Master about the fate of the Jiang family. He learned that the genocide was already predetermined and could not be changed. So, in desperation, he decided to preserve the remaining strength and leave the burden of reviving the family to future generations.

In hindsight, this decision wasn't a bad one. After all, the Blood Origin Sect, the Shentu Clan, and the powerful demon clan members, totaling at least four or five Spiritual Transformation Realm cultivators, participated in the genocide. Among them was a Shentu Clan ancestor who, according to the expansion pack, had reached the Return to Void Realm. With such a lineup, even if Jiang Taixu used the Five Elements Wheel, he likely wouldn't be able to withstand it, and would instead hand the opponent a bloodline gift for nothing.

If Jiang Rao hadn't encountered a cheating player, it would have been difficult for her to succeed in her revenge.

"Master."

Jiang Rao finally spoke again: "I have two more questions I would like to ask you.

"First, was the information you just mentioned really gathered after you accepted me as your disciple? Secrets like the Five Elements Wheel are probably known only to a very few people within the Blood Origin Sect. How do you, Master, know so much about it?"

Chapter 85: Killing the Master and the Traitor? Big Wave of Wealth! (Two in One)

(Because I’m a gamer.)

Bai Yuan wanted to say this.

After all, what she just said was indeed unknown to her predecessor. Some of it hadn't even been investigated by the Blood Origin Sect. Only a seasoned player who had thoroughly studied the expansion pack and background story could know it so clearly.

but……

"jump over."

Bai Yuan said expressionlessly, "This question involves some old things. It's no good for you to know. Let's ask the next one first."

——In fact, she hasn’t figured out how to write it yet.

Although Bai Yuan could directly blame the now-decimated Jiang family, even claiming that he and a member of the Jiang family were once close friends, who knew if Jiang Taixu had left any last words for Jiang Rao in the [Dayan Five Elements Wheel] or elsewhere? If he exaggerated and Jiang Rao exposed him in the future, it would be counterproductive.

"..."

Jiang Rao was silent for a moment before saying, "Secondly, is the 'Blood Tide Heart-Eating Gu' you planted in me related to this matter?"

This time, it was Bai Yuan who remained silent for a moment: "Have you guessed it?"

"Yes."

"Although the 'Blood Tide Heart-Eating Gu' is one of the most vicious poisons in the world, it has a little-known side effect: it can mask the host's bloodline, making it impossible to accurately identify. If it weren't for this Gu, you would have been discovered by the Blood Origin Sect and taken back to their Netherworld Blood Pool Prison long ago."

Well... this is actually partly true.

"Blood Kite" really didn't want others to discover Jiang Rao's true identity, so she chose the "Heart-Eating Gu" that could affect her bloodline among many control methods. But her original purpose was to use Jiang Rao to better carry out her undercover mission.

But from another perspective, this can indeed be regarded as a kind of protection for Jiang Rao, effectively delaying the time when she was discovered by the Blood Source Sect.

And now...

"Now that the Blood Origin Sect has discovered you, the effect of this 'Heart-Eating Gu' is no longer effective. Perhaps it's time to remove it."

Bai Yuan said.

Hearing her words, Jiang Rao was shocked. He suddenly raised his head with an expression of disbelief: "Really? Master, are you really willing to help me remove the 'Heart-Eating Gu'?!"