章 676: Chapter 83 Adding Fuel to the Fire for Xuan Zi_2
"Ah?"
The leading elder was startled by Xuan Zi's attitude. Unable to steady himself with his walking stick, he stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Soul Master, you must believe us,"
"Indeed, a sinister-looking Soul Master did come to our village, but he was just passing through. He didn't stay long and left shortly afterward. We truly know nothing of any evil Soul Master..."
However.
Xuan Zi still wasn't buying it. "Stop your senseless chatter. There are only two paths before you."
As he spoke, Xuan Zi extended one finger, "The first path is to reveal who the evil Soul Master. I can guarantee that I will do everything in my power to spare the innocents in your village."
Then, he extended a second finger, "The second path is that you have only five breaths' time. If no one speaks the truth, then everyone dies together."
In these times, he had witnessed too many similar situations. The evil Soul Masters would often hide among the crowd or jump out to blackmail him, using the lives of the people to secure their own escape.
But was that possible?
He, Xuan Zi, loathed being blackmailed the most.
Faced with the choice of saving one person, ten people, or even a hundred, to let an evil Soul Master who had committed numerous atrocities go, he had faced such dilemmas many times, and his answer remained the same: he would rather mistakenly kill hundreds or thousands than let a single evil Soul Master go.
Now, he couldn't be bothered to even entertain the choice and simply provided the answer.
"What!"
"You want to kill us all?"
Upon hearing Xuan Zi's words, everyone's faces went through a severe change.
Some were shocked, some panicking, others full of dread.
And some were angry.
"You have no regard for human life, how are you different from an evil Soul Master?"
"If there are, then there are; if there aren't, then there aren't. How can you expect us to conjure up an evil Soul Master out of thin air?"
"..."
Facing the public's accusation, Xuan Zi's face drastically changed.
"Enough of your babble!"
"If you are useless even when given a chance, then you shall all die."
As his voice faded, the Soul Rings on his body suddenly lit up.
The powerful Soul Force Pressure exploded out, and in an instant, all the villagers were pressed to the ground, gasping for air.
"We are innocent!"
The village elder shouted in despair.
But Xuan Zi paid them no heed. The murderous intent in his heart had been ignited, and at that moment, his only desire was to kill.
The next moment, a massive phantom of the Gluttonous Sacred Bull descended from the sky.
Boom!
The ground shook, and blood dyed the earth red, limbs and severed parts strewn all about.
Of the fifty-odd people in the village, not one body was left intact.
"Finally, it's quiet."
Xuan Zi wore a look of relief on his face.
But then, his brow immediately furrowed.
"What's that?"
He noticed that within a deep pit his own foot had created, there lay a peculiar crystal ball.
Picking it up, he found that inside the crystal ball was a pitch-black liquid emitting a sinister aura, which was not just similar to the evil aura that pervaded the entire village; it was identical.
Xuan Zi's eyes widened in shock. He realized that he might have been misled by that cunning evil Soul Master, and the villagers he had just killed might have been telling the truth.
He muttered to himself unconsciously, "This, this... Could it be that I've actually killed the wrong people just now? The villagers were indeed innocent. I've been misled by that damned evil Soul Master."
However.
In the next moment, he shook his head, "Impossible, absolutely impossible! How could I have possibly made a mistake? It's these villagers who are to blame."
"Yes, it's these villagers' fault. They are accomplices of the evil Soul Master, plotting and framing to corrupt my mind. They intended to destroy my mental state."
"I have not wrongly killed an innocent person; they all deserved to die."
"Yes, they all deserved to die!"
By now, there were no longer any living beings in front of Xuan Zi. Otherwise, they would surely have been terrified by his demeanor.
At this point, how was Xuan Zi any different from an evil Soul Master?
After a long while, Xuan Zi finally returned to his senses from his frenzied state.
He cast one glance at the village and, like a thief with a guilty conscience, he left in a hurry.
A moment later,
Two figures enshrouded in loose cloaks appeared in the dark corner.
They looked at the soul guidance crystal in their hands and couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahaha, brother, I think we can go back and report now. Including this village, that old fart Xuan Zi has already destroyed over a dozen villages. A hundred or so people per village, that means over a thousand people have died at the hands of this old fart."
To tell you the truth, as an evil Soul Master, the number of people who have died by my hand is only about one or two hundred. This old fart's killing nature is really extraordinary.
But, I'm really looking forward to it, imagining how splendid it will be when the entire Soul Land is abuzz with images of this old fart's massacre."
Upon hearing this, the other person also laughed heartily, "Haha, now that you mention it, I'm starting to look forward to it, too. But it's better to have more evidence of this kind, so I suggest we split up. You go back to the Holy Land and hand over the evidence we've gathered to the Sect Hierarch. Let him decide whether to make this public."
"I'll continue to follow this old fart Xuan Zi and keep setting him up, let him sink deeper and deeper. Maybe he will become an evil Soul Master on his own without us needing to expose the evidence publicly."
"Hehe, you make sense. Let's both work hard then." The other person chuckled, and then they went their separate ways.
...
Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, Monday arrived.
At the gates of the Imperial Sun Moon Soul Academy, a team was neatly assembled.
"Elder, it's a pity that I still have some matters to attend to and can't accompany you..."
"It's a foreign land, full of turmoil, you must take good care of yourself."
"And don't forget about me."
Ju Zi tearfully said goodbye to Qin Xiao.
A brief union heralded another separation, leaving an unspeakable sadness in the girl's heart.
Qin Xiao reached out to ruffle Ju Zi's hair, smiling slightly, "I know. Besides, I won't be gone for long."
Upon hearing this, Ju Zi became anxious, "Three years isn't a long time?"
Three years?
How could that be?
Qin Xiao figured that, according to his own plan, it would be a lot if he could stay at Shrek Academy for three months.
"Ju Zi, don't worry. You have me. I'll definitely take good care of the elder," Meng Hongchen suddenly said, poking her head out from the carriage behind Qin Xiao.
Ju Zi turned and saw her, her face suddenly changed, and she couldn't help muttering in her heart, I'm even more worried with you here...
However, she still found it somewhat difficult to voice these words.
With a wrinkled nose, Ju Zi asked, "Meng, how come you can go too?"
Meng Hongchen responded with a smile, "Hehe, my grandfather said that while I'm young, it's good to study the cultivation of the Martial Soul. Oh, and he mentioned something about learning from the strengths of a hundred others to make up for one's own deficiencies. Of course, none of this is very important to me. The most important thing is to go to Shrek Academy with the elder."
It must be nice having a grandfather who's a dean... Ju Zi pouted and sighed quietly to herself.
Unfortunately, she couldn't act according to her whims due to certain circumstances.
Otherwise, she would have clung to Xuan Ziwen and insisted on getting an exchange student spot for herself.
But... did they really have to share a carriage to go to Shrek together?
Ju Zi felt a sour feeling in her heart.
However,
Meng Hongchen struck again at that moment, "Ju Zi, don't worry. Like I said, I'll definitely take good care of the elder. You don't know, I originally wasn't supposed to share a carriage with the elder."
"But, in order to take better care of the elder, I specially swapped places with someone to share a carriage with him."
Ju Zi felt as though her heart had been ruthlessly stabbed.
If possible, I really wish none of this had ever happened.
"Elder, I won't see you off then. Take care on your journey," she said before running off without looking back.
Qin Xiao couldn't help but touch his nose.
He was well aware of what the young girl was thinking.
But,
Right now, he didn't have the luxury to focus on romantic entanglements.
"Elder, come on," Meng Hongchen called impatiently to Qin Xiao after Ju Zi had left.
Qin Xiao: "..."
Yet, he obediently boarded the carriage.
To be honest, compared to the others, he was actually quite willing to share a carriage with Meng Hongchen.
Aside from Meng Hongchen, he didn't know any of the other exchange students.
And he had no interest in getting to know them.
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