Truth Revealed

"Yanran, don't do anything rash!"

City Lord Tang stared at Wang Yanran and said gravely.

Wang Yanran gripped Tang Yiqian tightly. The blade in her hand had already cut Tang Yiqian's neck, and blood slowly ran down its edge.

Tang Yiqian's face was deathly pale, her body trembling slightly, her eyes filled with fear.

The surrounding cultivators were all frightened.

"How is she so formidable?"

"Who said earlier that she passed her cultivation on to Zhang Junyi?"

"She's highly skilled. We were careless just now."

"Everyone, be careful. Don't let Miss Tang die."

"What was that footwork she used just now?"

Ignoring the surrounding discussion, Wang Yanran held Tang Yiqian hostage and headed up the mountain.

"Whoever dares follow us, she dies!"

She shouted sharply, completely unlike her usual spoiled self.

Unfortunately, there were more than a dozen contestants among the cultivators. They followed cautiously, afraid that Wang Yanran and Yi Xiaofeng might escape.

Yi Xiaofeng had become a man covered in blood. He staggered backward and braced himself against a large boulder to keep from falling.

He panted heavily, feeling pain all over his body.

He had never hurt this badly before.

He even felt as though his body no longer belonged to him.

City Lord Tang watched Wang Yanran approach, his brows tightly furrowed. He snorted. "As expected, you are Wei Qixin's daughter. Over the years, she often came to teach you. You've hidden yourself well indeed!"

Wang Yanran's face turned cold as she said frostily, "My father treated you well all these years. Without him, the Tang Family would not be where it is today. Why did you betray him?"

Hearing this, the contestants all stopped and waited eagerly.

Learning the truth would help them complete their respective Main Quests.

Even now, not a single one of them had truly sorted out the truth behind this case.

They had not even figured out who the real victim was.

"Hmph, do you think your father truly valued me? Wasn't it all because of my daughter? To awaken the Demonic Blood within you, he planned to sacrifice my daughter. Since you had cultivated the Pure Yang Five Swords Technique from childhood, your yang energy needed to be transferred to another. Men and women should not touch, so your father wanted to choose a woman. I discovered all this eight years ago!" City Lord Tang gritted out.

As soon as he said this, everyone looked at Yi Xiaofeng strangely.

Had something happened between him and Wang Yanran?

"Your father was never the sect master of the Pure Yang Sect. You harbor the Demonic Blood of Wei Qixin, that old demonic fiend. Your Wang Family deserves to be wiped out!"

City Lord Tang seemed to be venting the resentment in his heart.

Wang Yanran bit her lip lightly and shouted angrily, "Then why did you kill so many innocent people?"

City Lord Tang snorted. "If I wanted to kill your father, didn't I need to learn some skills? I took the Xiayang Five Ghosts as my masters and cultivated the Blood Fiend Divine Art. Only by absorbing the Essence Blood of others could I grow stronger. But all of this is your father's fault!"

"Wang Yanran, your father is already dead. I can let go of my hatred and stop hunting you down, as long as you release Yiqian. Otherwise, if Yiqian dies, you won't die well either, including your little lover!"

He raised his saber and pointed it at Yi Xiaofeng in the distance.

Wang Yanran continued forward with Tang Yiqian in her grasp. "Of course. I only want us to survive as well. I no longer have the strength to pursue what happened in the past."

She went around City Lord Tang, backing toward Yi Xiaofeng.

Tang Yiqian said softly, "Yanran, you don't have to do this. I can speak to my father..."

"Shut up! If you hadn't given my husband those stupid ideas, would he have suffered such grievous injuries? I treated you as a true friend, yet I never expected you and your father to harm me like this. If you knew the truth, couldn't you have told me directly? I could have made my father change his mind. Why drag so many people into this?" Wang Yanran rebuked.

She was truly disappointed.

Ever since childhood, Tang Yiqian had been the person she trusted most. She told Tang Yiqian everything.

After City Lord Tang faked his death, she had even kept Tang Yiqian's past hidden in order to clear her of suspicion.

Yet...

She had never imagined that all of this was a trap laid for her by the Tang Family.

Tang Yiqian fell silent and said nothing more.

There was no point in saying anything else about this matter.

Wang Yanran backed up in front of Yi Xiaofeng, her eyes fixed on City Lord Tang as she asked softly, "Husband, are you all right?"

Yi Xiaofeng wiped the blood from his face and forced a smile. "I'm fine."

Fine, my ass!

He was almost dying from the pain!

He would definitely avenge today's grudge someday!

"We'll leave here alive together," Wang Yanran said firmly.

The three of them backed away together.

Yi Xiaofeng could not help asking, "Tang Yiqian can't resist you?"

He had always thought Tang Yiqian was an expert.

After all, when they first met, Tang Yiqian had given him the chills.

"She has always been useless. She can't learn martial arts or cultivation, but I taught her a few tricks to confuse people and make them feel afraid of her for no reason," Wang Yanran answered.

Tang Yiqian's delicate brows furrowed slightly upon hearing this.

Yi Xiaofeng was speechless.

So that was it.

City Lord Tang and the other cultivators pressed closer step by step.

"If you keep this up, it'll be hard for me to release your daughter," Wang Yanran said coldly.

City Lord Tang's gaze flickered. "I can't trust you."

The two sides remained locked in a stalemate.

Soon, Yi Xiaofeng and the other two reached the top of the slope.

Yi Xiaofeng looked back, and his expression changed drastically.

This...

What a melodramatic twist!

Why was there a cliff behind this slope?

Following his gaze, they saw thick fog filling the space below the cliff, obscuring its bottom. The surrounding mountains were likewise shrouded in mist.

From above, it looked as though an immortal god had cleaved an enormous rift between the mountains. Before that vast chasm, mortals seemed utterly insignificant.

Wang Yanran glanced back, and her lovely face shifted with emotion.

City Lord Tang and the others reached the top of the slope and saw the cliff behind it as well.

Yang Yu sneered, "You have nowhere left to run. You might as well surrender. We'll hand you over to the Government. You may not necessarily die."

Zeng Shu frowned. "City Lord Tang has already explained the truth..."

Qin Qinxue stepped forward and said, "Master Wang's death was not unjust. Wang Yanran now carries Demonic Blood and may endanger all living beings. She is our target."

The other contestants spoke up as well.

Clearly, most of the contestants who had followed them here were Demonic Cultivators and Evil Cultivators.

Their goal was to kill Wang Yanran.

The Main Quests of the Righteous Contestants, meanwhile, were to uphold justice, investigate the truth behind the murders, or, like Yi Xiaofeng, search for the Pure Yang Pill.

Yi Xiaofeng took a deep breath.

The only option now was to jump.

If he were the protagonist of a story, he would surely turn disaster into fortune, undergo a transformation, and soar to greatness.

Yi Xiaofeng also wanted to see whether he had that kind of luck, but Wang Yanran was not a player. If she died, she would truly be dead.

"Husband, it seems we can only jump down. Do you regret it?" Wang Yanran asked softly.

Yi Xiaofeng sighed. "A little. We shouldn't have taken this path. It doesn't matter if I die. I just hope you can live well."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yanran turned to look at Yi Xiaofeng, her eyes filled with emotion.

She gritted her teeth and said, "There's no use compromising with them now. We would only suffer endless humiliation. Let's jump. If we have no fate in this life, then we can be husband and wife again in the next!"

City Lord Tang hurriedly said, "As long as you release Yiqian, I guarantee that I'll let you go!"

Wang Yanran revealed a mocking smile. "You've killed so many people and have already fallen into demonic ways. How can I trust you?"

With that, she pulled Tang Yiqian and turned to leap off the cliff.

"No—"

Tang Yiqian and City Lord Tang screamed at the same time.

Yi Xiaofeng cursed inwardly. This girl is far too fierce!

She jumped the moment she said she would!

He turned and jumped after them.

City Lord Tang rushed over, only to see Yi Xiaofeng falling into the clouds and mist. Wang Yanran and Tang Yiqian were already nowhere in sight.