Reverse, Huh!

Chen Yuanye looked at Lin Yu, seemingly also struggling with whether or not to answer.

However, looking at the two pieces of Xie Chong's remains Lin Yu's hands, he quickly made up his mind.

"Okay... if you want to know what I want to do, I won't hide it from you."

"Of course, I intend to use Xie Chong's remains to Resurrection the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yunzi spoke again, "You were born a human, yet you serve Yaomo... How shameless and depraved you are!"

Chen Yuanye looked at Xuan Yunzi and said coldly, "Taiqing Sect, you call yourself a prestigious and righteous sect, and believe that Human Race are superior to Yaomo, right? But what you do is just as despicable, isn't it?"

Hearing Chen Yuanye's words, Li Nian got excited.

"Oh? There's more to this story? This old Daoist priest isn't a good person either, is he?"

As Li Nian spoke with great interest, Chen Yuanye immediately pointed a finger. "That's right, this old Daoist and the Taiqing Sect behind him are full of benevolence and morality... But, with the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord suppressed in this Double Saw Mountain, have they ever considered the people within a hundred miles of Double Saw Mountain?"

"Even though I am not Chen Yuanye, I know all his Memory —his relatives, friends, and fellow villagers, have the Taiqing Sect ever inquired about them?"

Hearing Chen Yuanye's words, Snowy Owl frowned slightly. "Indeed, the Taiqing Sect claims to be the leader of the Righteous Path, how can they be so disregardful of human life?"

Gao Shan, however, did not believe Chen Yuanye's words. "This guy is a lackey of Yaomo, don't be swayed by his words... Perhaps this method of handling things is inappropriate, but the chief culprit in the destruction of this village must be that Yaomo —in a case of burglary and murder, the most condemned person is definitely the murderer, not the community security guards for their inadequate supervision."

"Moreover, the claim that the Taiqing Sect ignores the common people is only his side of the story!"

Gao Shan, being a former Police, clearly had far more social experience than Snowy Owl, and had witnessed far too many vicious criminals using fabricated stories and deceptive tactics to evade responsibility and absolve themselves of guilt.

But Chen Yuanye looked at Gao Shan and spoke again in a cold voice, "This is not just my side of the story—those townspeople and villagers were clearly deliberately left here by the Taiqing Sect. These prestigious sects have always liked to do this, and the reason is... humph."

Chen Yuanye sneered and looked at Xuan Yunzi: "The reason is that the number of mortal souls is far from enough for the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord to escape, but once there are large-scale deaths and a significant decrease in the number of people, it can be used to determine that the Yaomo here have revived."

"Putting 'Soul Lanterns' on everyone in a town is much simpler than directly putting surveillance Talismans on Yaomo."

"These Daoist Sect and Martial Arts School clearly know where powerful Yaomo reside, yet they refuse to disclose this information and even encourage ignorant people to gather nearby, simply to use human lives as expendable resources—to monitor the movements and status of Yaomo."

"At the same time, it's also to prevent those Yaomo from escaping my control."

"Am I right, Xuan Yunzi?"

Xuan Yunzi glared at Chen Yuanye, his beard trembling with rage. "Nonsense and slander! My Daoist Sect disciples and Martial Arts School heroes take it upon themselves to slay demons and uphold justice. Countless Daoists and martial artists die here every year, and yet you dare to spout such nonsense..."

"And how many civilians have died?" Chen Yuanye interrupted him, "In your 'slaying demons and protecting the righteous path,' how many innocent civilians have you killed or died unjustly? Especially you, the 'leader of the Daoist Daoist Sect, Taiqing Sect,' how many people who had no choice have you killed in your quest to slay demons and eliminate evil?!"

"What do you mean by 'killed' or 'wrongfully killed'?" Xuan Yunzi roared. "Our Taiqing Sect has always acted with integrity and a clear conscience. When have we ever intentionally harmed anyone in order to slay demons?"

"Right here in these mountains— Chen Family Fortress, Five Springs Village... you might not recognize these places, but what about Willow Town?!"

"Three hundred and fifty years ago, what kind of 'cruel' things did your Taiqing Sect's founder do to the townspeople of Willow Town...?"

"They were killed by the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord. By the time they were discovered, all the townspeople of Willow Town had already fallen into his hands and become half-dead puppets," Xuan Yunzi said sternly. "They were merely corpses manipulated and played with by Yaomo, already killed by that spider. They only appeared to be alive. Even so, our ancestor still suffered and regretted the rest of his life. This is clearly a manifestation of the compassion and mercy of our Taiqing Sect's ancestor. Yet you turn around and say that this is 'cruel'... If you hate our Taiqing Sect and all the Daoist traditions of the world because of this, and that's why you became the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord's lackey, then you are utterly foolish, mistaking a thief for your father, and unable to distinguish right from wrong!"

Chen Yuanye sneered, "Bullshit, Xuan Yunzi, you've really gone too far in exonerating your ancestor. You even believe he's truly innocent now?!"

"Back then Willow Town had a million townspeople who traded there. What abilities did that Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord possess to control a million people simultaneously... If that's truly the case, how could your Taiqing Patriarch have suppressed it alone?!"

"Of course, among the million townspeople, only seven or eight out of ten were affected by the 'Karma Threads,' and even those were only solvable at the junior high level. The number of people actually turned into puppets was only a mere hundred or so. Because you, the Taiqing Patriarch, could not discern the truth, you chose to directly use the Hundred Tribulations Forbidden Art to sink the entire Willow Town, along with the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord, underground!"

"You, the Taiqing Patriarch, are the murderer and butcher who killed millions!"

Xuan Yunzi's expression Cataclysm: "Spreading heresy and misleading the public, you scoundrel who turns black into white..."

"Then Daoist Oath, Xuan Yunzi," the fake Chen Yuanye said coldly, "I don't believe you know absolutely nothing about this matter!"

Xuan Yunzi gritted his teeth. "You bastard! You beast! Who exactly are you?!"

But...

He neither denied it nor dared to Daoist Oath!

Watching the conversation between the two Native of the Prison Mountain Realm go back and forth several times, although it was somewhat confusing, the Player still managed to glean some of the Truth.

Seagull exclaimed in surprise, "Wait a minute, has this turned out differently...? These old Xuan Yunzi and the Taiqing Sect really aren't good people?!"

Gao Shan also found it hard to accept. "It seems so... Does that mean that a hundred years ago, the millions who died in Willow Town were mostly killed by the Taiqing Patriarch, and the spider was responsible for only a minority of the deaths?!"

The Snowy Owl looked at Lin Yu.

"Interesting... Old Yao, is this what you expected? Was this also within your expectations?"

Lin Yu shrugged. "No, things didn't turn out this way... At first, I just simply felt that this old Daoist was hiding something from us."

"After all, he clearly saw that we were 'outsiders,' and his strength should have been enough for him to be Native of the Prison Mountain Realm who could see that, but he deliberately didn't say it out loud."

"Furthermore, although his explanations are all self-consistent... they are indeed only one side of the story, without any substantial evidence."

"It just so happens that someone has come along who is absolutely not going to side with him, so I thought I'd try to 'listen to both sides' to gain a clearer understanding."

"I didn't expect there would actually be a big one."