Shi Ji and the Earth Dao

"Lady, Lady Shi Ji, visitors have arrived!"

Having spotted the two attendants, Zhou Qingqing and Bai Ze naturally lowered their cloud once more.

The moment the two attendants saw them, they reported to the master of Skull Mountain's dojo.

As their voices rang across the mountain,

a beautiful woman wearing a golden fish-tail crown and a crimson Eight Trigrams robe immediately appeared before Zhou Qingqing and slowly bowed to her.

"Shi Ji greets Eldest Sister. Forgive me for failing to welcome you from afar."

With that graceful bow, her bearing was immediately apparent.

You never knew until you saw her; once you did, it was startling.

As a villain, Lady Shi Ji's looks and bearing were actually quite impeccable.

Within the Three Pure Ones Hall,

Upper Pure Master Tongtian frowned slightly.

Having heard Qingqing's rough account of this divine immortal slaughter calamity,

his disciple Shi Ji should have been one of those implicated by it. Why would she be regarded as a villain in later times?

Could it be because he had suffered a complete defeat in the Calamity?

The victor became king, the loser a bandit.

Having lost the Calamity, the Jie Sect would probably have been considered villains of the Primordial World. In that case, Shi Ji becoming a villain seemed perfectly normal.

Supreme Pure Laozi remained silent.

In an instant, he too understood the crux of the matter.

In the original course of events, his second brother represented Following Heaven. Even if he had suffered many losses, his image remained positive. His third brother, who represented Severing Heaven, could naturally only be the villain.

Such an outcome was perfectly normal.

Even so, it was rather absurd that Shi Ji had remained a villain in Qingqing's memory all along.

However,

this also showed that what she had experienced