Chapter 168

Chapter 168: Sowing Discord

The Silver Devil Guard had just tried to stir up trouble when Jiang Yi frowned and suddenly threw a punch.

Even though Jiang Yi was a Sword Sect Disciple, she seemed to like using her fists. With her Demon Clan bloodline, her strength was no weaker than a Cultivator who trained the body.

Caught off guard, the Silver Devil Guard took the blow right to the mouth.

She froze as a cracking sound came from her teeth; shards fell out one by one.

The Silver Devil Guard was stunned. She had only just started provoking them, and they were already fighting?

She struggled to move and mumbled through the ruins of her teeth: “I shaid it is all true!”

Liu Jun Cheng sneered: “Your teeth are gone, and you still have the strength to talk.” Sword light flashed as he flicked his blade; the muscles and nerves in her face were cut, and her mouth could no longer open. Her facial muscles hung limp.

A trace of hatred passed across the Silver Devil Guard’s face. [So these people call themselves righteous, yet each one is crueler than the last.] [I only suspected Li Shuang.] [Her sword style is so strange. Was it wrong to doubt?] [Righteous disciples, what a double standard.]

When Ye Zhao Zhao heard the Silver Devil Guard’s claim, her eyes flickered.

She had a System and knew that what Li Shuang had grasped was a Soul Method. But the System also said the inheritance of Soul Methods in this world had been cut off, and only the very top sects kept a complete line.

So most people would not know anything about Soul Methods. Li Shuang herself might not even know what she had touched.

[If I steer people to think Li Shuang’s sword move is a Devil Path art, many might believe it.] Sword Sect elders might notice something, but the elders were not here.

[This is a chance to make it a story and push Li Shuang to the opposite side of everyone.]

Especially the ones from Emotionless Peak. [I want Liu Jun Cheng and his group to question her too.]

Later, even if the Sword Sect proved Li Shuang innocent, so what? [The crack would already be there, and the damage would not fully heal.] [This is my chance.]

Ye Zhao Zhao stepped forward. Pressing her hand over her wound at just the right spot, she turned pale and said: “Fellow Daoist Li’s situation really does seem off.”

Only then did Sheng Yuan notice the cut on Ye Zhao Zhao’s chest. He paused, then asked: “Fellow Daoist Fang, your injury…?”

Ye Zhao Zhao showed a weak look and glanced timidly at Li Shuang: “It was Fellow Daoist Li…”

Sheng Yuan’s expression changed as he looked to Li Shuang: “Senior Sister Li, what is going on? Before this, you already injured Fellow Daoist Fang once. She took it as a misunderstanding and kept silent, not wanting to argue. But this time you hurt her again? We cannot let this pass!”

Ye Zhao Zhao quickly said, choosing her words while watching Liu Jun Cheng and the other three: “No, no, Fellow Daoist Li did not mean to hurt me.”

She knew Sheng Yuan and Shen Yue would believe her without her even speaking much. But their belief did little for her plans. What she wanted was for Liu Jun Cheng, Sui Jin, and Jiang Yi to turn against Li Shuang.

In a soft voice she said: “Fellow Daoist Li struck to kill those ordinary people who had not fallen to the Devil Path. I could not bear to watch, so I rushed in to block the attack. I only wanted to protect those people, but I did not expect…”

Pain flashed in her eyes as she added: “I did not expect that I could not change anything. After stabbing me, Fellow Daoist Li killed everyone right in front of me. Those people were just ordinary folks tricked into coming here, but now they have all been wiped out by Fellow Daoist Li. People say Sword Sect Disciples help the weak and bring peace. With such terrible killing intent… could it be that she has really gone the wrong way?”

Showing fear, she said: “Also, in that sword move I could not see any Sword Qi at all. Only ripples spread out, and in the next moment the Cultivators around her all fell. Inside the Sword Sect… is there such a sword art?”

She lowered her voice and added: “I think I once heard that the Soul Sect, one of the Three Devil Sects, has a similar method.”

She gave a timid look: “Of course, I am not saying Fellow Daoist Li is from the Soul Sect. I just…”

After a long pause, she put on a gentle, pitying face: “I only think that so many people did not need to die.”

Li Shuang watched Ye Zhao Zhao perform. [Just a few more days and Master should arrive.] [Then she will have nowhere to run.] [These tricks are nothing but a clown’s show.]

Sheng Yuan turned cold toward Li Shuang and said: “Senior Sister Li, is what she said true? Because of the past, is your heart now full of anger? The Devil Path should be killed, but what about those who have not entered the Devil Path? Senior Sister, why did you kill them too!”

Before Li Shuang could speak, Ye Qing Er could not hold back. She said: “Are you truly of one sect? How can you doubt your own people just because an outsider says a few words? Those killed by Fellow Daoist Li had followed the Devil Path in the attack against us. Now that they are dead, do they not deserve it?”

Others who had fought beside Li Shuang all spoke up. “That’s right. They took part in the attack. Just because they failed does not make them innocent.”

One of them said coldly: “Not joining the Devil Path does not mean being innocent. One of those killed by Fellow Daoist Li, a man named Shen Tian, had not fallen, but he worked with the Heavenly Sovereign Society. He harmed many mortals and tricked who knows how many Cultivators into joining. Once inside, if you could lure more people or were cruel enough to abuse mortals, you got more freedom. People like us, who were duped there and still refused to give in, ended up covered in wounds.”

As he spoke, he pulled off his shirt. His body was packed with whip marks.

“Right. Truly innocent people would not keep helping evil at the end.”

Voices rose one after another.

“Every last one of them deserved it.”

“Good kill.”

Ye Zhao Zhao was stunned for a moment, and a trace of disgust flashed in her eyes. [These people really cannot stop talking.] [Who asked them?] [Are they just showing off that they have mouths?]

She put on a frail look and said: “I only think we should still investigate clearly…”

Ye Qing Er eyed her with open doubt and said: “Fellow Daoist Fang, stop putting on a show. In this battle, most of us were injured. Fellow Daoist Li’s clothes were stained red. You kept moving around, looking busy, but you did not help at all. The only wound on you was the one you walked into under Fellow Daoist Li’s sword. Your behavior is very strange.”