"Heh." Qian Sha Yu sneered, his mocking laughter echoing through her mind. "How disgusting, Qian Renxue."
"The lofty young mistress of Spirit Hall actually fell for an enemy who preached righteousness and morality while being hypocritical and double-faced."
"Qian Renxue, is your brain full of mush?"
Qian Renxue had been struck where it hurt. Her cheeks flushed red with anger.
"Shut up!"
"You're nothing more than a second personality parasitizing my body. What right do you have to judge me?"
"What do you know about feelings?"
"Although Tang San ruined my plan, he truly is a once-in-a-century genius, loyal and righteous—"
"Loyal and righteous?" Qian Sha Yu burst into wild laughter. "Hahaha!"
His laughter was filled with bloody mockery.
"Then today, I'll thoroughly peel away the skin of that 'genius' in your eyes and let you see what filthy sewage fills his belly!"
Blood-red killing intent erupted within the space of consciousness... No, it surged violently through the space of consciousness.
Every word Qian Sha Yu spoke next was like a blade.
He directly tore apart Tang San's hypocritical mask.
"Tang San is a hypocrite with double standards."
"He has double standards when hunting soul beasts."
"Tang San treats that hundred-thousand-year-old spicy rabbit head, Xiao Wu, like treasure. He keeps accusing Spirit Hall of being cruel, heartless, and inhuman for hunting soul beasts."
"But what about himself?"
"When he pursued the Cave Demon Spider and hunted ten-thousand-year soul beasts, had he ever shown the slightest mercy?"
"As long as it was a soul ring he wanted, the soul beast deserved to die."
"When Spirit Hall obtained soul rings for the sect's benefit, it became 'an unforgivable crime against heaven and reason.'"
"So all the soul beasts under heaven belong to his family? Only he can kill them, while anyone else who touches one is guilty of every conceivable evil?"
Qian Renxue's delicate body stiffened slightly as she listened.
She wanted to refute him, but realized she could not find a suitable argument.
She had indeed heard about Xiao Wu, the hundred-thousand-year soul beast who had taken human form and stayed by Tang San's side.
She remembered that Xiao Wu had even sacrificed herself for Tang San.
But... Qian Sha Yu was not wrong.
Spirit Hall hunted soul beasts for humanity's development.
Tang San hunted soul beasts for the same reason: to increase his strength.
Why was Spirit Hall branded evil while Tang San was portrayed as the embodiment of justice?
Qian Sha Yu gave her no time to think.
His icy voice continued to explode in her mind.
"Qian Renxue, did you know Tang San once went to Slaughter City?"
"This... seems to be true."
Qian Renxue thought of how Qian Sha Yu possessed the same Death God Domain as her mother, Bibi Dong. Both had obtained it from Slaughter City, that land where wicked men fell into depravity.
"Then did you know that Tang San cultivated his Death God Domain in Slaughter City and gained enormous benefits from it?"
"But what did he do afterward?"
"In the name of 'upholding justice for heaven,' he threw the Blood-Colored Swan Kiss into Hell Road with his own hands, destroying the entirety of Slaughter City!"
"Huh? Wasn't that a good thing?"
Qian Renxue raised a brow. "Everyone in Slaughter City was a fallen Soul Master. They deserved to die."
"Heh." Qian Sha Yu sneered. "You think he performed some great act of kindness?"
"Didn't he?"
"What a ridiculous joke!"
"Slaughter City allowed entry but no exit. It was a natural prison that held the fallen Soul Masters and villains of the entire continent."
"Once Slaughter City fell, tens of thousands of bloodthirsty fallen Soul Masters lost their restraints and flooded crazily into the two empires of Heaven Dou and Star Luo!"
"In the future, countless innocent commoners will die at the hands of those fallen Soul Masters!"
Qian Sha Yu was not merely making a guess.
The Evil Soul Masters of the Peerless Tang Clan era had evolved from these fallen Soul Masters.
"Tang San simply dusted off his hands and left, conveniently awarding himself the title of savior who had rescued all living beings."
"But the ones who suffered were the common people."
"You call that loyal and righteous? That is hypocrisy at its peak, leaving disaster behind for a thousand years!"
Those words struck Qian Renxue's heart like a heavy hammer.
She sucked in a cold breath.
Before the Heaven Dou Palace Coup, she had indeed received reports that Slaughter City had been destroyed and fallen Soul Masters were scattering everywhere.
Even Heaven Dou City had seen multiple incidents of fallen Soul Masters committing crimes.
At the time, she had only assumed they were ordinary criminals.
She had never imagined that Tang San was behind it.
He destroyed a prison for criminals, released countless demons, and still called himself a savior?
Qian Renxue's fingertips turned cold.
"Not only that, Tang San also has double standards when it comes to sect interests and morality!"
Qian Sha Yu's sneer grew more savage.
"Tang San hates Spirit Hall to the bone because Spirit Hall wanted to unify the continent through military conquest."
"But what did he do himself?"
"He founded the Tang Sect and frantically manufactured those poisonous hidden weapons with massive destructive power."
"He sold the Zhuge Divine Crossbow to the two empires and the Upper Three Sects, provoking war and conflict across the entire continent."
"This..."
Qian Renxue's pupils contracted.
She actually knew about this matter.
Especially during the Heaven Dou Palace Coup, both the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Single-Attribute Four Clans had been equipped with Zhuge Divine Crossbows and other hidden weapons. Their killing power had been astonishing.
"Spirit Hall sought to unify the continent in order to erase national borders, end centuries of division and warfare, and let the common people live in peace."
"Yet Tang San stirred up wars between sects and empires, selling weapons of war purely to elevate the Tang Sect's status!"
"Those who obey him prosper; those who oppose him perish."
"Anyone who follows Tang San is part of the righteous lineage."
"Anyone who obstructs Tang San's interests is an evil heretic and treacherous villain!"
"Qian Renxue, this is the 'Tang Yin' you cannot forget!"
"An utterly selfish hypocrite who uses morality to bind the entire world, yet places no restraints on himself!"
Each and every one of those bloody facts.
Every word was incisive!
Every sentence struck at the heart of the matter!
Cracks appeared in the image of that perfect genius Qian Renxue had viewed through a flattering filter.
Qian Renxue's initial anger and suspicion gradually turned into bone-deep coldness.
She had no idea how Qian Sha Yu knew such hidden details.
But it did not sound fabricated at all.
When all those events were linked together, every one of Tang San's actions exposed his extreme selfishness and hypocrisy.
If all of it was true—
Then had she nearly fallen for such a revolting hypocrite?
What an absurdly ironic thing that would have been.
Qian Renxue took a deep breath.
She sank her delicate body completely into the warm pool water.
The confusion and inner conflict in her cool, beautiful eyes vanished completely.
Absolute calmness and killing intent flowed through her eyes.
"Hmph." Qian Renxue gave a cold snort. "I will not listen to only your side."
"I will send people to thoroughly investigate everything you've said."
Within the blood-red mist deep in her mind.
Qian Sha Yu watched Qian Renxue regain her senses and curled his lips in satisfaction.
Of course, he did not expect to completely reshape someone's worldview with just a few words.
But the seed of doubt and disgust had already been planted deep within her.
As long as the shackles of love-brained thinking were severed.
As long as she no longer held foolish fantasies about her enemy.
Only then could the true glory of Qian Renxue's god-tier Angel Martial Soul possibly tear apart all hypocrisy across this continent!
"Finish your bath."
"Next time, don't make me clean up your mess."
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