Between Advance and Retreat! Mo Xie Arrives!

Zhou Huoyun snorted coldly. "A scum like you can still harbor such thoughts?"

That snort nearly blew Zhou Fengding's mind apart. Blood poured from his seven orifices, and in agony, he collapsed to the ground and rolled about before hastily changing his words. "No! No! I didn't want to take him as my adopted son!"

"It was him!"

"He wanted me to sleep with him!"

"He had his eye on me!"

The moment those words came out, the entire hall was shocked. Every disciple who heard them changed expression!

"Utter nonsense!" Zhou Huoyun shouted sharply. "It seems that unless I search your soul, I won't be able to get anything out of you." He raised a hand, and Zhou Fengding's body flew into the air, seized beneath his palm.

Zhou Huoyun said in a deep voice, "My Flame Peak possesses an item called the Sea-Change Mirror. I imagine some of you have heard of it. It can turn a person's memories from the past month into scenes and display them."

His palm pressed against Zhou Fengding's head as true qi surged forth. Zhou Fengding's face instantly turned purple, foam spilling from his mouth as his whole body convulsed violently. A moment later, he fainted dead away.

Above the Alchemy Hall, scene after scene materialized from thin air—Zhou Fengding's memories, forcibly extracted by the power of the Sea-Change Mirror and transformed into flickering images before everyone's eyes.

There were scenes of him accepting bribes, scenes of him coercing disciples, scenes of him making deals with those who bribed him. They were simply too vile to behold.

At the very end, Li Bufan appeared—the image showed Zhou Fengding drinking and talking merrily with someone who looked remarkably like Li Bufan. That person repeatedly called him "adoptive father," every word dripping with flattery.