But before the scene could begin playing, someone nearby said, "What are you lot? How dare you come here and slander Lord Ye!"
As soon as those words fell, not only were Ye Qingwan and the other woman surprised, but even Ye Yu looked around in astonishment.
"All these years, we saw clearly everything Ye Yu did for Great Flame. We admire Lord Ye's character!"
"Exactly! Who in all of Azure Prefecture doesn't know what kind of person Lord Ye is? Only you people from Great Flame are too blind to see!"
Even Ye Yu had not expected so many people in Great Qin to support him.
Yet the Great Flame citizens he had risked his life to protect had been swayed by Ye Xuan's few words.
For a moment, even though Ye Yu no longer cared about such things, he could not help feeling deeply moved.
"Lord Ye's character? You'll know once you finish watching!" Ye Qingxuan sneered, raising her chin at Ye Qingshuang.
Ye Qingshuang nodded and sent a stream of spiritual power into it. The scene began to play.
As the scene began playing,
everyone saw the dilapidated Crown Prince's Eastern Palace and could not help sighing. Their gazes toward Ye Yu were full of disbelief.
Many of the Great Qin citizens present were ordinary mortals. They stared at the scene in shock. The residence of Great Flame's dignified Heir Apparent was actually worse than their own homes.
Even Ye Qingshuang wore a stunned expression.
Ever since she had followed Cangyun on his travels, Ye Qingshuang had rarely returned to Great Flame. Even when she did return, she never went to the Eastern Palace.
But she had never imagined that the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace had become like this.
Listening to the murmurs around her, Ye Qingxuan's expression darkened. Yet she soon gritted her teeth and said, "Keep watching. Then you'll know Ye Yu isn't worthy of sympathy at all, because he colluded with the Devil Race."
The moment she said that, everyone's expressions changed. One by one, they stared at Ye Yu in shock.
The Devil Race was the common enemy of all humankind. If Ye Yu had truly colluded with them, then no matter how monstrous his talent or how great his achievements, he would become the public enemy of all.
Ye Yu, on the other hand, remained calm and unruffled, because he remembered this scene.
This scene concerned someone else.
Ye Yu then turned with a strange look on his face and said to Ye Qingxuan, "I advise you not to keep playing it."
"Now you know fear? Too late! Even if you kneel and beg me to detoxify you now, I won't accept! I'll let everyone in the world see your true face!" Ye Qingxuan scoffed, assuming Ye Yu was afraid.
After saying that, Ye Qingxuan even had Ye Qingshuang place a restriction. Before the scene finished playing, no one could interrupt it.
Ye Yu shrugged at this. Fine words could not persuade a ghost bent on dying. Since Ye Qingxuan insisted, he had nothing more to say. In any case, he would not be the one embarrassed.
The scene quickly advanced. Soon, a flash of blood-red light appeared in one corner of the image.
The mortal onlookers did not feel anything, but the expressions of those with some cultivation all changed.
Though the Memory Stone recorded images, cultivators could still sense the fluctuations of spiritual energy within.
The instant that bloody light appeared, they all felt disgust and fear. Without a doubt, it was devilish energy!
Seeing this, Ye Qingshuang secretly let out a long breath. It seemed her master had been deceived by Ye Yu. That blood poison had been planted by Ye Yu after all. And he had even claimed Ye Yu was a seventh-grade alchemist—how could that possibly be true?!
Ye Yu felt the strange looks directed at him, but he was not flustered in the slightest. He quietly watched the scene continue as memories constantly surfaced.
Within the scene, the bloody light grew brighter and brighter, while the devilish energy became increasingly dense, as though it were about to burst out of the image.
Soon, a figure appeared in the scene.
When they saw who it was, Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang's eyes widened. They cried out, "Fourth Sister?!!!"
Hearing the two of them, the people around them instantly understood.
Great Flame's Fourth Princess, Ye Qingqing!
Rumors had long circulated that Great Flame's Fourth Princess, Ye Qingqing, had been tainted by devil blood and become half-human, half-devil.
They had originally thought it was merely a rumor, but now, seeing Ye Qingqing in the scene with devilish energy billowing all over her body, how could it be false? It was clearly true.
No wonder Great Flame's Fourth Princess had not appeared in any public setting for so many years.
How could she show herself in that state?
The human race had never shown mercy toward Demonic Cultivators. Once anyone was discovered secretly colluding with the Devil Race, they would rather kill the wrong person than let one slip through the net, much less tolerate a half-human, half-devil existence.
When Ye Yu had been framed by Ye Xuan as a member of the Devil Race in the Great Yan Imperial Palace, he had not been executed on the spot. On one hand, Ye Qingwan knew it was one of Ye Xuan's petty tricks. On the other hand, Ye Qingqing had set a precedent.
"Quick! Turn it off!" Ye Qingxuan panicked and hurriedly shouted.
Ye Qingshuang also came to her senses and hurried to remove the restriction, but how could a restriction be lifted so quickly?
In the scene, Ye Qingqing had already arrived before Ye Yu. She reached out and seized Ye Yu by the throat, dragging the severely injured Ye Yu up from the ground. Then she plunged one hand into his abdomen.
Blood immediately poured out in torrents.
At some point, a dagger had appeared in Ye Yu's hand. He drove it into Ye Qingqing's chest.
Seeing such a bloody scene, many people cried out in alarm.
Some of the more timid ones even shut their eyes. After all, most of those present were mortals. How could they have seen anything like this?
Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingshuang were both stunned.
Ye Qingshuang soon came to her senses and angrily cursed, "You actually attacked Qingqing! Are you even human?!"
Ye Yu turned around and gave Ye Qingshuang an indifferent glance, then laughed. "What, she wanted to kill me, so I was supposed to stand there and let her? I'm not even allowed to fight back?"
"How could trash like you compare to Qingqing..." Ye Qingshuang continued cursing, but Ye Qingxuan pulled her back.
Ye Qingxuan now recalled what had happened that day. She gave Ye Yu a complicated look, then shifted her gaze back to the scene.
When Ye Qingxuan had arrived that day, Ye Qingqing had been unconscious and Ye Yu had collapsed heavily injured on the ground. But she had known nothing of what happened before that.
In the scene, Ye Qingqing cried out in pain and released Ye Yu. Ye Yu fell to the ground, blood streaming from his abdomen.
But Ye Qingqing's wound was healing. Then she clutched her head and let out a pained roar, repeatedly smashing her head against the ground as the devilish energy around her grew denser and denser. She was on the verge of truly becoming a devil.
Yet the fallen Ye Yu suddenly smiled faintly. The dagger in his hand abruptly lit up, and one rune after another rose from it.
Ye Qingqing's healing wound ruptured once more. But this time, a strand of dark golden blood was drawn out and absorbed into the dagger.
After it absorbed the final drop of golden blood, the dagger suddenly turned gray and lifeless. It fell to the ground and shattered into several pieces.
Ye Qingqing's face suddenly turned pale. As though all strength had left her body, she collapsed to the ground, her breathing growing weaker and weaker.
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