Zhu Long (Part 1)

"Ah."

Shen Fei's sudden shout made Yun Tianhe, who had been caught in a painful struggle, look bewildered. Han Lingsha and Murong Ziying immediately turned their eyes toward Su Yao. What Shen Fei had said was something they had never considered before, and upon hearing it, they instinctively looked to Su Yao for confirmation.

"How dare you!" Su Yao immediately roared at Shen Fei.

But Shen Fei paid no attention to Su Yao's reaction. He kept his gaze fixed on Yun Tianhe and spoke again. "Yun Tianhe, why do you believe Xuanxiao and Su Yao, yet refuse to believe your own parents? Do you truly think your parents were bad people? Why can't Qionghua Sect be the one in the wrong? Why can't Xuanxiao and Su Yao be wrong?"

"You mean... my parents had their reasons for what they did back then?" Shen Fei's words restored a little of Yun Tianhe's reason.

"Exactly. Though I never met either of them, I can tell from you and from Stone Sink Creek Cave that they definitely weren't the sort to betray their sect on their own initiative. I didn't understand the meaning of those poems at Stone Sink Creek Cave before, but now I do. They left Qionghua Sect because of its ascension plan."

"Isn't ascending to immortality a good thing? Why do you say Tianhe's parents left Qionghua Sect because of that?" Han Lingsha looked at Shen Fei curiously. As she spoke, Su Yao and the other Qionghua Sect disciples, including Murong Ziying, all stared intently at him.

"Ascending to immortality is indeed a good thing, but Qionghua Sect's ascension plan was not. You heard what they said earlier, didn't you? They intended to use the combined power of the Yihe Sword and Wangshu Sword to bind the demon realm. In