Dao Equaling the Heavens
Chapter 393 - 18 The Venerable Must Not Be Insulted_2

Chapter 393: Chapter 18 The Venerable Must Not Be Insulted_2

Regardless of whether it was Chi Yu Zi or Gu Wen, they were both seniors in his own family.

"Doesn’t it sound like Mr. Hee’s sect?"

Gu Wen remembered that Hee Huan was from the Yin Yang Sect, while this sect had the additional words "Joyful Union."

Xie Yunnan replied, "Dual cultivation originated from the same sect. Ten thousand years ago, they had a divergence. One faction stayed within the Daoist path and became the Yin Yang Sect, while the other joined the Demon Sect and adopted the appellation ’Joyful Union.’"

It is ranked second among the sects of Huajian Continent and was also the former hegemon of Huajian Continent.

"No worries, let us just watch the drama unfold."

Gu Wen leaned against the window, and he spotted another cultivator in the crowd who had a trace of unique pure energy within him.

Chi Yu Zi’s divine thought reached far away, where She Jingqiu was being taken away by a group of people.

She said, "Now they have agreed to let the young girl go out to seek the Sanqing Taoist Sect. At this time, only the Daoist Sect can stand up for her."

Under Chi Yu Zi’s relay, Xie Yunnan was also able to see the scene miles away and said, "The Yin Yang Union Sect is still considered righteous. They are offering help at this moment."

"Offering help? They are just fighting for power and profit."

Chi Yu Zi, full of disdain, shamelessly repeated what Gu Wen had said.

"I guess She Jingqiu was initially set up by the Yin Yang Union Sect. They let her escape for two months just to escalate the situation. An heir of the devoted Ninghua Sect being persecuted—how would other sects view this, and how would the Daoist Sect see it?"

The current rulers of the world were all renowned for their great achievements in the great war between humans and demons.

This layer of relationship is known as the custodianship of the law, which is recognized by the majority of cultivators.

Great powers emerging from the human-demon war naturally sought to uphold this custodianship of the law, to stabilize their sovereign positions as Venerables.

Xie Yunnan, very astute, suddenly said, "The Yin Yang Union Sect wants to drag the Qianfeng Sect into the mud and make Xuanjin Venerable lose his position!"

But was it necessary to go to Huajian Continent?

She looked towards Gu Wen, who was amusing himself with a spiritual pet.

Matters involving the Venerable at least required the judgment of the Three Pure Venerable. And now the sovereign of the world was Yuqing Heavenly Venerate.

In terms of orthodoxy, neither Taiping nor Upper Pure were comparable to Gu Wen; they had no right to judge a Venerable’s guilt.

Xie Yunnan felt somewhat sorry for She Jingqiu and said, "She Jingqiu is deeply entangled in the power struggles. I wonder if she can have a good outcome. Junior Master Gu, could you possibly help her?"

Gu Wen implied, "Often when one side is the villain, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the other side is the hero."

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In the Qianfeng Sect, an auxiliary palace.

A man was thrown out, fiercely hitting a large phoenix pillar thick enough for two people to embrace, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

"Piece of trash! Why tell me only now? Do you understand what you’ve done?"

Hua Qing True Monarch clenched her fists, nails digging deep into flesh, her face full of shock and anger.

"I asked you to pursue her, not to force her! You think it’s still eighty hundred years ago? Today we have Qingcang Immortal ruling the universe above, and the Venerables shepherding the people below."

She grabbed the man’s hair and yanked him up, nearly roaring, "Are you trying to get me killed?"

She knew her nephew was pursuing the heir of the Ninghua Sect, and she was keen on facilitating this relationship. If her nephew could inherit the Ninghua Sect lineage, then she would have the backing of a second-tier sect.

It would be greatly beneficial to her cultivation and her influence in Huajian Continent.

But Hua Qing True Monarch could never have imagined her nephew would dare to directly kidnap the heroic heir—a martyr’s descendant designated explicitly in Daoist writings and proclaimed to the world.

How dare he? How dare he!

The man had not yet realized the gravity of the situation and wailed with a face full of grievance, "Aunt, you are unaware! That woman deceived me, promising to become my Dao companion and swindled me out of all my wealth. I sold all my assets to obtain ten Spiritual Treasures, which she tricked me into giving her!"

"I just wanted to get those ten Spiritual Treasures back. I didn’t intend for it to go this far."

Hearing this, Hua Qing True Monarch calmed down, but was still beside herself with anger.

"Fool, you go to a brothel for dual cultivation but pay up without seeing anyone? Besides the kidnapping, why did you send people to kill her?"

The killing was one thing, but chasing her for two months made the whole Huajian Continent aware.

If not for the fact that they were millions of miles away from the Daoist Sect—if the Daoist Sect were just next door—this issue would have blown up the very next day.

"It was Shen Guang who did this, and he incited the abduction."

"Who is Shen Guang?"

"A true disciple of the Yin Yang Union Sect."

Bang!

The man was thrown out again, smashing through a wall and flying a hundred meters before being knocked unconscious.

Hua Qing True Monarch’s breathing gradually steadied, her mind settled, knowing that taking one more wrong step could doom her forever.

The good news was that the heir of the Ninghua Sect wasn’t dead, and the situation hadn’t yet reached the point of no return.

The bad news was also that she had not died; once she filed a complaint, the lighter consequence would be punishment from the Daoist Sect, and she would be dismissed; the heavier consequence would be the Daoist Sect stripping the Qianfeng Sect of its Venerable status, followed by her being executed by the sect leader.

Either option was a downfall.

Run? There might still be time to escape now.

An hour later, Hua Qing True Monarch arrived at the back mountain, where an old woman sat under a pavilion in a secluded valley, seemingly already aware and asking, "You’re not running?"

"Did you know?"

"Secrets don’t keep forever. Now, everyone in Huajian Continent knows. Sometimes I think, maybe if I hadn’t hidden here to heal, today wouldn’t have come."

Lu Chan looked at her, changing familiar terms, "Senior sister, you are just too soft-hearted. Back then because you cut off from the mundane world yet still secretly went back to see your parents, you lost the chance to enter the Immortal Land. Now because of your nephew, you’re doomed."

Hua Qing True Monarch, decades her senior, was also her mentor when she had first entered the sect. Initially, they had a good relationship until they competed for succession, causing their relations to gradually grow distant.