Chapter 682 - 342: The Truth Behind the Si Family Massacre
Chapter 682: Chapter 342: The Truth Behind the Si Family Massacre
"You, you are..."
Outside the east gate of Cyan Simurgh Hall, in a secluded palace path, Si Mingcheng’s face, originally full of urgency, was now full of shock.
The petite and gentle female cultivator Ming Chou before him slowly grew taller, her appearance shifting from innocent to alluring, and finally transforming into a face familiar yet alien to Si Mingcheng.
This face had grown up with Si Mingcheng in the Si Family since childhood.
Si Mingcheng watched her change from pure and cute to charmingly beautiful, then to the desperate despair after the Si Family’s massacre, and finally into this lasciviously enchanting appearance on Zhenyang Mountain, culminating in the face before him...
A face full of seductive allure yet brimming with murderous intent.
"Si Minglan?!"
Si Mingcheng retreated repeatedly, raising his hand to point at the woman in front of him:
"Weren’t you dead?"
Si Minglan slowly approached him, six tails with red glimmers appearing behind her, even more alluring yet increasingly terrifying.
Si Mingcheng stared at her in disbelief: "Demonic Fox?! You’ve practiced the Celestial Beast Record? Are you no longer human?!"
"So what if I’m not human?"
Si Minglan’s enchanting red lips parted, revealing slightly sharp teeth like those of a demonic beast, yet her face bore the charming and eerie smile of a fox:
"To escape from hell and wash away the Si Family’s injustices with your blood, does it matter if I become a demonic beast?"
Si Mingcheng finally steadied himself, drawing out a long sword, sneering coldly:
"So what if you’ve practiced the ’Celestial Beast Record, Nine-tailed Fox Scroll’? Only six fox tails, do you truly dare to strike within the Western Emperor Palace?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the alluring figure was already in front of him in a flash.
A wave of deathly aura rushed towards him, and Si Mingcheng raised his sword in shock, his spiritual power exploding.
Bang!
The sword infused with Spiritual Energy was struck and broken by Si Minglan’s claw!
Si Mingcheng was horrified, raising his left hand, a sword aura flying towards Si Minglan’s face, while he quickly leaped backward.
But his back hit an invisible wall.
"What’s this array!?"
Before Si Mingcheng could turn around, that enchanted red-glimmering figure appeared before him again, Si Minglan’s hands now with sharp claws, her face even more alluring.
The fox claws swung down, fierce glimmers flashing, and Si Mingcheng held a silver shield in his hand, gritting his teeth as he raised it above his head.
This was an Immortal Artifact with extremely powerful defensive capabilities, able to withstand attacks from a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator.
However, with a heartless shattering sound, the Immortal Shield exploded with a bang, Si Mingcheng’s body flew out, crashing into the invisible wall, a mouthful of blood spewing from his lips.
"Heh heh."
With a light, enchanting smile on her face, Si Minglan twisted her waist, slowly walking towards Si Mingcheng:
"Si Mingcheng, you were born of a courtesan, brought to the Si Family at age five, yet neither father nor mother ever mistreated you, but you repaid kindness with betrayal, fabricating evidence of the Si Family’s treason!"
"Today, on behalf of the Si Family’s 180 unjust souls, I claim your life!"
"Sister, sister! Please don’t kill me!" Si Mingcheng was terrified, kneeling on the ground in supplication:
"I didn’t fabricate that evidence, it was the Empress, the Empress forced me to do it, I had no choice!"
Si Minglan froze, looking down at Si Mingcheng, her gaze fierce: "What did you say?"
Si Mingcheng said fearfully: "It was the Empress! The Empress gave me that evidence, she said only if a member of the Si Family testified would it be more credible, she wanted to destroy the Si Family, I was forced too!"
...
Yong’an Hall.
Lin Yuan looked at Tantai Mingyue, shaking her head with a smile: "Little Sister Tantai, you’re the Sect Leader of Zhenyang Sect, yet you care so much about the petty affairs of our dynasty?"
"These are not petty affairs."
Tantai Mingyue said: "Si Minglan is a disciple of my Zhenyang Sect and the daughter of your West Imperial Dynasty’s National Guardian General, she killed your eldest son because of that unjust case from years ago!"
"Lin Yuan, everyone says you are generous and dignified, a paragon among mothers, but only I know, you’re a venomous woman with a heart like a snake or scorpion!"
Lin Yuan laughed lightly: "Little Sister Tantai, you’re mistaken, I never wanted to be the Crown Prince Consort, back then I was just like you, wanting Wu’an to ascend the throne."
"But he refused to listen to my master’s arrangements, I had no choice but to turn and support Wu Zheng."
"Si Yuanwu was the same, the West Imperial Dynasty had obeyed the Immortal Flying Pavilion for centuries, yet he defied destiny, saying the West Imperial Dynasty could no longer be the pavilion’s puppet."
"But he didn’t understand, without the Immortal Flying Pavilion, how would there be a West Imperial Dynasty?"
"Si Yuanwu was too stubborn, I couldn’t let him destroy the centuries-old alliance between the Immortal Flying Pavilion and the West Imperial Dynasty."
"So you schemed against the Si Family, wiping out their entire clan?!" Tantai Mingyue said coldly:
"Lin Yuan, you are truly ruthless!"
"Little Sister Tantai, what are you talking about?" Lin Yuan’s expression remained calm, with noble grace, she said lightly:
"The Three Great Sects annihilated the Cyan Lotus Sect, your disciples slaughtered the mortal women and children on Cyan Lotus Mountain, isn’t that ruthless?"
"You knew the truth about the Si Family back then, yet you didn’t speak up at the Six Peaks trial of Si Minglan, isn’t that ruthless?"
...
"What did you say?"
Outside the east gate of Cyan Simurgh Hall, Si Minglan widened her eyes in disbelief:
"Lin Yuan falsely accused my father of treason to ensure the Immortal Flying Pavilion’s continued control over the West Imperial Dynasty, wiping out my entire Si Family?"
Si Mingcheng knelt on the ground, nodding repeatedly: "Sister, I dare not deceive you, think about it, back then I was just an illegitimate child, even if I had evidence, without the Empress’s secret facilitation, how could such a major case of treason be resolved so quickly?"
Si Minglan bit her silver teeth tightly, her eyes red, her voice slightly hoarse:
"Did Wu Zheng know?"
Si Mingcheng knelt and respectfully replied: "The Emperor knew about it, but didn’t stop the Empress."
Si Minglan stood still for a moment, tears falling, then suddenly she laughed:
"I should have expected it, father, you spent your life on the battlefield, dedicated to the West Imperial Dynasty, only to be betrayed by the Emperor and Empress, heh heh, this Western Emperor Palace... truly, not a single innocent person!"
She seemed excessively saddened, her body swaying, Si Mingcheng suddenly pulled out a golden awl from his cloak, stabbing fiercely at the barrier behind him, the fox demon barrier tore open a hole, and Si Mingcheng quickly slipped through.
He had just escaped a few yards when a snow-white light suddenly appeared, an incomparably sharp chill striking, slashing across his body!
"Ah!"
Si Mingcheng screamed, being sliced, flew back, landing in front of Si Minglan.
"Xiaoxue?"
Si Minglan looked up, seeing a tender and pure figure appear ahead, she held a snow-white long sword, her face with a gentle smile:
"Third Senior Sister, I finally found you."
Looking at the purely beautiful figure slowly approaching, Si Minglan’s enchanting face showed a gentle smile like flowing water:
"Xiaoxue, long time no see, you’ve grown stronger."
Under the clear moonlight, within the stern palace walls, seductive and pure figures embraced each other.