Chapter 323

Chapter 323: Master, is Ye Cong Xin really dead?
Five Elements Dao Sect.

Council hall.

The head elders and peak masters sat upright and serious. The air was heavy.

Sect Master Ji Yuan looked around the hall. His gaze stopped on Master Guan Yun, who was so angry it was as if her hair was standing on end.

“Guan Yun, what do you think?”

Master Guan Yun stood up in fury as she said, “Su Ming and Quan Ye did something so heartless and crazy. They should be punished according to the sect rules!”

According to the rules of the Five Elements Dao Sect, anyone who maliciously harms a fellow disciple is to be killed.

Quan Ye knelt in the middle of the hall, accepting everyone’s gaze. His expression was full of hate. He lifted his head to speak in his own defense, but Sect Master Ji Yuan only glanced at him and directly cast a silencing technique. It was not his turn to talk yet.

The other elders and peak masters began to whisper to each other.

A moment later, Elder Sun stood up.

“Sect Master, Master Guan Yun, it is not that I want to plead for those two,” he said, “but there are indeed many strange points in this matter. It would be better to understand the inside story first before we decide.”

Elder Sun really did not believe that Su Ming and Quan Ye would attack Ye Cong Xin so cruelly for no reason.

After all, everyone had seen how much they spoiled her before this.

Even if they suddenly turned against her, it should not have gone as far as taking her life.

Master Guan Yun gave a cold snort, but she did not object.

Quan Ye looked at Sect Master Ji Yuan with excitement and hope.

But Sect Master Ji Yuan did not look at him. Instead, he called in the disciples who had been waiting in the side hall. He had them describe what they had seen and heard.

After they finished and withdrew, Sect Master Ji Yuan finally signaled for the silent Su Ming to speak in his own defense.

Su Ming’s first sentence was like a clap of thunder that shocked everyone.

“Sect Master, honored elders, please forgive this disciple for speaking bluntly,” he said. “The reason I killed Ye Cong Xin in public is that Ye Cong Xin is the incarnation of a demonic fiend. She can seize a person’s fortune and use it to nourish herself.

With such an evil creature, how could this disciple allow her to live in this world? So I killed her.”

“How dare you! To speak such nonsense in the main hall of the sect!” Master Guan Yun shouted, shaking with anger.

She had planned to give Su Ming and Quan Ye a chance to live. She never thought they would not be grateful and would even make up such a wild excuse. It was truly hateful.

“This disciple does not dare lie,” Su Ming said. “I am willing to swear on my dao heart. If there is even half a sentence of falsehood, may my soul be scattered and never find rebirth.”

Boom!

A clap of thunder sounded in the sky above the hall.

“This…” someone gasped.

Everyone was shocked.

The oath had taken effect. Su Ming was not lying.

How could this be?

Sect Master Ji Yuan’s eyes flickered.

One by one, Ye Cong Xin’s strange points flashed through his mind.

She had calmly passed her eighteen-year death tribulation. Her cultivation level had risen in an odd way. Everyone on Lone Moon Peak had favored her for no clear reason…

Any one of these things alone did not seem important, but together they made his blood run cold.

Sect Master Ji Yuan lifted the silencing technique from Quan Ye and looked at him with sharp eyes.

Quan Ye did not let him down. Filled with emotion, he shouted, “Sect Master, elders, the one I killed was not human. Ye Cong Xin is a malevolent spirit! She deserved to die! She lied to me. She lied to everyone!”

With two disciples both saying that Ye Cong Xin was the incarnation of a malevolent spirit, even those who did not want to believe it felt doubt in their hearts.

“Disciple Zhou Jin Yue requests an audience.”

At that moment, Zhou Jin Yue’s clear voice sounded outside the doors.

Sect Master Ji Yuan’s face relaxed a little as he said, “Enter.”

Zhou Jin Yue walked into the hall.

She had just finished her closed-door cultivation and advanced to the nascent soul stage. She still could not fully control her aura, so a natural pressure spread around her as she walked.

The elders’ eyes lit up when they saw how bright and full of life she looked. Seeing her powerful aura, they were even more pleased in their hearts.

If the timing were not so bad, they would not have held back. They would have praised Zhou Jin Yue from head to toe.

“Jin Yue, why have you come?” Looking at his beloved eldest disciple, Sect Master Ji Yuan’s voice softened without him noticing.

After Zhou Jin Yue bowed formally to everyone, she said in a clear voice, “This disciple has come regarding Junior Brother Su and Junior Brother Quan killing Ye Cong Xin.”

Everyone’s expressions changed slightly.

From the way Zhou Jin Yue addressed them, they could tell whose side she stood on.

Was the Main Peak also going to get involved in this mess?

Sect Master Ji Yuan frowned.

Of course he did not want the Main Peak to be dragged in. The relationship between the Main Peak and Lone Moon Peak was already delicate, and his own relationship with Master Qing Yan was far from friendly.

If Master Qing Yan misunderstood and thought he had meddled in this, he would be asking for trouble.

“You just finished closed-door cultivation. Do you also know what happened inside?” he asked.

Hearing the hint in her master’s words, Zhou Jin Yue did not answer that point. She first apologized to all the senior uncles, then asked Su Ming and Quan Ye the same question: “Why did you kill Ye Cong Xin?”

They answered at the same time: “Ye Cong Xin is a malevolent spirit. She will harm the entire cultivation world!”

The missing piece of the puzzle had finally fallen into place.

The doubts Zhou Jin Yue had held about Ye Cong Xin for so long were finally confirmed.

Zhou Jin Yue lifted her robe and knelt straight down. She listed, one by one, all the problems on Ye Cong Xin and the methods she herself had used to deal with them.

“Disciples can testify for Su Ming and Quan Ye,” she said. “The Main Peak disciples Zhang Jun and the inner disciple Xiu Luo are all witnesses.”

A loud buzz swept through the council hall.

They might not trust the words of Quan Ye and Su Ming, but they would not doubt Zhou Jin Yue.

Everyone knew her character and ability.

Su Ming and Quan Ye were the most shocked of all.

First, they had never expected Zhou Jin Yue, who was not close to them, to stand up for them at such an important time.

Second, without any hints, she had noticed that there was something wrong with Ye Cong Xin even earlier than they had and had already taken action.

Zhou Jin Yue’s boldness only made their own uselessness and foolishness stand out more.

Thinking of how Zhou Jin Yue was on good terms with Yu Zhao, while they had pulled away from Yu Zhao because of Ye Cong Xin’s scheming, their faces burned with shame. They wished they could crawl into a crack in the floor.

Sect Master Ji Yuan looked at Zhou Jin Yue, who stood with her head held high, and nodded with satisfaction. Then he glanced at Su Ming and Quan Ye, whose heads were almost buried between their knees, and clicked his tongue in disgust.

After talking with several elders, they decided to lock Su Ming and Quan Ye up on Lone Moon Peak first. They would wait until Master Qing Yan finished her seclusion before making a final decision.

Thus, after Fang Cheng Lang, Lone Moon Peak now had two more people shut in for reflection.

Sect Master Ji Yuan had Elder Sun escort the two back to Lone Moon Peak. The other elders all left for their own peaks. Once they were gone, his usually serious face suddenly bloomed into a wide smile.

“You broke through?” he asked.

“Yes.”

Sect Master Ji Yuan nodded, then pretended to complain as he said, “You troublesome child, you didn’t even talk with me about it first. You completely caught me off guard.”

Zhou Jin Yue gave a helpless smile. “Everything happened so suddenly. This disciple could not have known in advance.”

She had just come out of seclusion when she heard the news that Su Ming and Quan Ye had killed someone. There was no time to make any plans. She had rushed to the council hall, afraid that if she came any later, a wrongful case would be settled.

“Sigh, this Quan Ye and Su Ming were far too rash,” Sect Master Ji Yuan said with a sigh. “Even if Ye Cong Xin is a malevolent spirit, they still should not have killed her. They should at least have left a live body.”

He was very curious about the fortune they had talked about. He also wanted to see how exactly Ye Cong Xin had plundered fate.

Now that she was dead, all clues were gone.

“They ruin more than they ever finish,” he muttered.

Zhou Jin Yue opened her mouth, then closed it again.

“What is there that you cannot say to me?” Sect Master Ji Yuan asked, unhappy.

“Master, is Ye Cong Xin really dead?” she asked.