Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao
Chapter 247 - 127 You Are Already Dead!

Chapter 247: Chapter 127 You Are Already Dead!

Li Cangsheng sneered and continued, "They fear you, fear that once you know about the plan against you, you’ll become much more difficult to deal with. They fear that once you know how to congeal a Sword Soul, there’s no stopping you. They also fear... that your will has been completely devoured by the Evil King, so they keep provoking you. But one thing remains unchanged—that whether true or false, you should not be alive!"

Li Cangsheng’s words made Zhou Yan momentarily uncertain.

It seemed that this matter was getting more and more complicated.

"Don’t understand? You’ve lost yourself, naturally, you wouldn’t understand! So think! Reflect carefully, do you deserve to live in this world?"

Li Cangsheng snorted coldly.

"Spiritualist Cangsheng, no more talk, this will only make everything—"

Just then, the woman clad in snow-white clothes spoke up to stop him.

But Li Cangsheng didn’t care, speaking like a madman, "I, Li Cangsheng, have never deigned to engage in these conspiracies and deceptions. I confess I don’t know much, but when Zhou Han’s ancestor opened the Heavenly Sword Eye and saw that scene, I knew that everything was beyond redemption.

What a waste that the Wuhen Spirit and the Eternal Spirit fell into the City of No Tears’ domain of death for this matter; even they were probably helpless!"

As Li Cangsheng spoke, everyone seemed to think of something, their expressions growing infinitely dimmer, the sparkle of spiritual intelligence fading from their eyes.

"I, Li Cangsheng, look down on your mixed breed because I have always prided myself on the pure bloodline of the Li Family. Our Li ancestors were extraordinary! Yet somehow, your bloodline is very pure, but this is impossible, you know? If you have the Zhou Family bloodline, the Li Family’s bloodline cannot be so pure!

Yet you’ve somehow achieved it, so I have always doubted you, you’ve disguised it too well, making it difficult to grasp any solid evidence.

But the scene the Heavenly Sword Eye of Zhou Han’s lineage saw, I recorded it in the Sword Illusion Realm.

I originally thought it was a rare grand opportunity, one that would guide my future actions, but I didn’t expect... to record such a scene.

I know you won’t believe my words, because you now follow the Heartless Sword Dao, so you only believe in yourself, and won’t trust anyone else.

But let me show you these things, see if you know who you are!"

"Spiritualist Cangsheng, it must not be done! Absolutely not!"

The woman in white, almost immediately trying to intervene, was stopped dead in her tracks by an overpowering Blood Qi aura from Zhou Yan.

Her strength was also at the level of Three Souls and Seven Spirits. If they fought, she might not necessarily win, but would not certainly lose.

However, if they fought again, this patch of heaven and earth would be destroyed.

So, she hesitated for just a moment and then gave up.

At this point, let’s just see how things unfold.

Li Cangsheng gave a miserable laugh and directly stimulated his Essence Blood, not even asking Zhou Yan to release the suppression on him. Using his Essence Blood and Origin energy, he triggered the Sword Illusion Realm.

Though unable to attack or move, triggering a small Sword Illusion Realm with Essence Blood and Origin Energy was not very difficult for him.

He activated this Sword Illusion Realm, where it displayed the environment of the Spiritual Lotus Secret Realm.

In the Spiritual Lotus Secret Realm, a figure in black clothing cast out a black curtain.

The black curtain flew across the Void and suddenly entered a Cold Pond.

In that Cold Pond, a young man practiced Sword with water all around him.

His Sword was weak, lacking the force to strike the water, its trajectory drifting.

At last, due to utter exhaustion, the young man collapsed into the water.

That streak of black light entered the young man’s body, which underwent unimaginable transformations; from within emerged the semblance of an Evil Ghost, lying in wait and transforming, until it seemed to merge with the young man’s Soul.

After this scene vanished, another appeared.

Still the Spiritual Lotus Secret Realm.

Many lotus seeds emerged, but they turned into shiny black jade beads, then they became a streak of black light entering the body of the man in black clothing, who then infused black Qi continuously into the young man, who was in the midst of Enlightenment, allowing the young man to gradually comprehend a great deal of Tao.

Above his head, the comprehended Dao started to manifest, visible to everyone within the Sword Illusion Realm.

This scene too disappeared quickly, and the next was nine pillars of light piercing through the Void; the young man, now tall and imposing, but beside him appeared the Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City.

An accumulation of Sacrificial Heaven Ancient Cities built a Sky-reaching Tower, soaring into the clouds. The youth prayed earnestly, offering his Blood Qi, opening up a path in the Void.

The man in black descended upon the young man, whose Soul suddenly fragmented, disappearing never to return.

The man in black was resurrected and possessed the body of the Emperor Qi Sword Body, invincible.

Heaven and Earth, destroyed.

...

This scene, the first and second parts were extremely real, as real as if they were being recreated, encompassing almost all the miraculous adventures that Zhou Yan had encountered.

And that third part seemed to be a future scene!

But the future is elusive and uncertain, the future you can see is never the future; it only represents a trend of what might come.

If Zhou Yan had witnessed this scene before Yanyan left, he too would have doubted whether all this was real.

But now, he knew it was not.

Someone had used Deceiving Heaven’s methods to etch it all, crafting a scene visible to the Heavenly Sword Eye, then claiming it was a highly probable future because the previous two parts seemed to align perfectly with Zhou Yan’s experiences.

It was a terrifying trap.

Even after seeing Cai Ling’s true identity, despite her complete concealment at that moment, Zhou Yan still caught on.

But Cai Ling had no idea she had already exposed herself.

At this moment, Zhou Yan gazed thoughtfully at the Fairy Cai Xuan beside the woman dressed in white like snow, and experienced a moment of Ming Wu.

His expression was indifferent and calm, not showing any hint of paleness as Li Cangsheng and the others believed.

Seeing this, Li Cangsheng sneered again, "As for that scene, we don’t believe it, or rather, we don’t fully believe it. So, we sought out another Heavenly Spirit Sword Body and, with the help of Fairy Cai Xuan, Zhou Han, Zhou Ying, and the Ancestor worked together to deduce the outcome. As a result, the Ancestor was directly killed by backlash, an expert of the Void Sixth Realm, dead in an instant, reduced to ashes!

Zhou Han and Zhou Ying both suffered tremendous injuries, and even Fairy Cai Xuan’s strength regressed by a whole level.

But the result we saw was that you, Zhou Yan, had already died in the Cold Pond of the Zhou Family in the City of No Tears, on that night when your potential was exhausted! You were drowned by the waters of the Cold Pond!"

"Not only that, but you also died three times! And yet here you are, still alive, you truly seem to have transcended fate! But is that possible?"

"You claim you’re not a Ding Furnace? Not someone else’s puppet?!"

"You don’t believe it, but with each instance, I’ll tell you!"

"The first time was in the Zhou Family’s Cold Pond, that night, you died! Your potential exhausted, drowned by the lake! When Zhou Lingyi first saw you, she saw your corpse floating up, your face was purple and blue. Worried, she tried to jump in to save you, but you suddenly came back to life and underwent a personality change. From being obsequious towards her, you suddenly became disdainful!"

"The second time, it was within the Abyss."

"As soon as you entered the Abyss, you were already dead! Zhou Lingyi saved you with her own life, but by the time she resurrected you, you had already died. Yet, you still lived, so even Zhou Lingyi didn’t know your origins, hence her ambivalence towards you."

"The third time, you were undoubtedly doomed to die, yet here you are alive again! The third time, you, more than anyone else, know that you were killed by the Great Cailing Void Spirit. We all witnessed you disintegrate into nothing, but two days later, you miraculously reappeared!"

"Do you know, everyone is now afraid of you! Because it seems you cannot die!"

"You say you are not the Evil King’s Ding Furnace, how can you possibly explain all of this?"

"The Eternal Spiritualist, by nature a Body of Destiny, knew an Ancient Land where within the City of No Tears’ Despair Abyss, lies a mystical Abnormal Treasure ’Mingxin Mirror’ that can answer the doubts in one’s heart, question one’s identity, and even seek one’s Origin.

To understand your situation, the Wu Hen Spirit and the Eternal Spirit have gone down there, and now their lives hang in the balance, their faint vestiges of energy suggesting extreme danger."

"As for me, why worry about so much? After all, you’re a calamity, almost certainly the Evil King’s Ding Furnace. Why should I hesitate to kill you now rather than keeping you alive?"

"By killing you, the Essence Energy taken by the Eternal Spiritualist and the Wu Hen Spirit will naturally dissipate, and they need not continue taking risks and can return!"

"Furthermore, talking about talent, if it weren’t for your apparent immortality, how could you compare to Zhou Yuntian? Chosen by the Heavenly Dao, lucky favored by fate, not even Ji Tianxu could strip him of his Ding Furnace status. He also has the Memory Inheritance of Heavenly Destiny, it’s very possible he’s a Great Power of either the Zhou Family or the Li Family reincarnated after self-sealing. Naturally, the Zhou Family would choose him over a Ding Furnace, a betrayer, a monster like you."

"Your methods of killing, which one of them are the Zhou Family’s traditional ones? I’ve consulted ancient Scriptures and know of beings that cannot be killed, as long as they die enough times, the fourth time, they are doomed to die without fail.

So, as long as I live, I’ll always find a way to kill you!"

Li Cangsheng spilled everything he knew in one breath.

These words, however, plunged Zhou Yan into a strange silence.

All of this was truly terrifying.

Because upon introspection, Zhou Yan was well aware that even a falsehood could not involve another civilization. The inheritance his Master passed on to him was one of Earth’s civilization.

And that Evil King, he must be the master of the Spiritual Lotus Secret Realm.

And that master, indeed, might not even be able to withstand a single move from his Master.

His Master had repaired his Soul using the energy of the Spiritual Lotus Secret Realm, Zhou Yan knew this too.

So... could it be that the Evil King was a means by which his Master saved him? If this were the case, their misunderstanding would be more or less reasonable.

But the real fear was that all of this was someone’s deliberate misinformation.

Or was it that the one meant to inherit the Evil King sought to eliminate any potential threats, deliberately exterminating any possible risks? And he, Zhou Yan, might just be one of the greatest threats?