Decision to Betray the Tang Sect

Lin Wan'er actually wanted to take advantage of the time Bi Ji spent treating Bai Chenxiang to talk about the plan for this trip.

If the Speed Clan, which possessed extreme speed, took the lead and set an example by breaking away from the Tang Sect that the Tang God King had painstakingly built, then joining the sect the soul beast clan was preparing to establish, it would bring only benefits to both sides and no harm.

But before she could speak, she saw Bai Chenxiang's expression change. A thread of dark red blood slowly welled from the corner of her mouth and ran down into the depths of her neck. She even wiped it away lightly as if she did not care, as if she had long since grown used to it.

As a five-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Emerald Swan, Bi Ji's healing ability naturally went without saying. Bai Chenxiang, who had been nearing decline and death in recent years, might not be completely healed by her, but she should not have suddenly vomited blood right in front of them.

So Lin Wan'er was utterly stunned.

"Bai Chenxiang, are you all right?"

Without even bothering to ask Bi Ji why Bai Chenxiang, who had been perfectly fine, had become like this, Lin Wan'er shot over to Bai Chenxiang with a whoosh. After Martial Soul Possession, she extended her Scepter and aimed it at the position of Bai Chenxiang's heart, releasing soul power.

Seeing that the concern in the unfamiliar little girl's eyes did not seem fake, Bai Chenxiang waved her hand and was just about to say she was fine.

A surge of blood rushed up in her chest. Unable to hold it back, she spat out another mouthful of fresh blood with a pfft, staining the embroidered clan-chief pattern on the clothes over her chest red.

Now Bai Chenxiang truly could not smile. She had never imagined that one day, when she received treatment, not only would her depleted body fail to be nourished, it would instead worsen.

For a moment, even Bi Ji began to doubt her life as she withdrew her soul power. She looked at Bai Chenxiang, who kept vomiting blood, helpless and lacking confidence, and repeated, "Impossible. Absolutely impossible. My soul skill could never fail!"

Seeing this serious disaster scene, Lin Wan'er wasted no words and directly used the healing skill that came with Soraka: Wish.

"All things in the vast world exist in balance."

Bai Chenxiang felt a gentle soul power filled with vitality flow through her body, attempting to repair the damage.

Unlike Bi Ji's domineering power, Lin Wan'er's soul power was softer, silently changing the body like rain soaking into the earth, even producing a purifying effect.

Taking a deep breath, Bai Chenxiang's forehead revealed a curse mark from the Shura God's divine power. The moment that blood-red mark appeared, it was fully taken in by Lin Wan'er and the others.

"Tang San?!"

Bi Ji had never seen such a strange phenomenon that even she could not heal. She was a top-tier support-type Emerald Swan, a Ferocious Beast close to six hundred thousand years old. Pain she could not resolve, and that would even backlash against its host, seemed to be only... a curse from someone of the God Realm.

She turned her head and glanced at Zi Ji, whose expression was likewise solemn and no longer reckless, and could not help falling silent.

What a pure and noble Tang God King. It was not enough for him to force his good brother's inheritance to fall from a Level One God to a Second-Class God—he had actually set his sights on his good brother's wife in secret.

This did not mean Tang San coveted Bai Chenxiang's body. Rather, the Shura God's curse mark was enough to keep Bai Chenxiang's emotions trapped in extreme regret and negative perceptions.

Even after Bai Chenxiang died, her soul would be sent to the God Realm by the Shura God's divine power, becoming a chess piece in the Tang God King's hand, or someone else's nourishment, even a wedding garment for another.

After removing the curse that the Shura God's divine power had placed on Bai Chenxiang, the soul power bottleneck Lin Wan'er had been constantly thinking about truly vanished. In an instant, she went from level twenty-eight to level twenty-nine, only one step away from level thirty.

When it came to breaking curses, if her Soraka Martial Soul dared call itself second, no one dared call themselves first.

By a twist of fate, she had broken the Tang God King's little arrangement on Bai Chenxiang and received the World Consciousness's approval, so her Soul Power Level naturally rose.

If her lifespan had not already become about the same as that of a top-tier soul beast, making her growth extremely slow, then after removing the power of the Shura God's curse at this moment, it would not have been excessive for her Soul Power Level to rise by at least another five levels.

Looking at Bai Chenxiang, whose appearance had become somewhat younger and whose white hair was much glossier than before, Lin Wan'er got straight to the point and began discussing the purpose of this trip and the future plans for the Speed Clan.

Bai Chenxiang was not a fool. From the plan Lin Wan'er explained in just a few words, along with the Shura God Tang San that Bi Ji and Zi Ji had mentioned just now, as well as the earlier abnormal condition of her body and her usual inexplicable anger toward her daughter Bai Feng, it was not hard to reach a conclusion.

That was, the Tang San whom Xiao Wu called her good brother with every breath, whom her husband Ma Hongjun admired and trusted, and whom he regarded as the most respected Shura God after Boss Dai Mubai, the founder of the Tang Sect, was truly disgusting to the extreme.

Bai Chenxiang bit her lip hard. A roaring blaze ignited in her still-clear eyes.

She had known there was something wrong with Ma Hongjun's final God Trial back then, but no matter how she thought about it, she had never been able to place the greatly disrespectful titles of culprit and mastermind on Tang San.

Now that she thought back on it, whether it was Ma Hongjun back then or herself when they had first met, both had more or less formed some not-too-big, not-too-small grudges with Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Perhaps the husband and wife had already been remembered by Tang San a long time ago. It was only because of their relationship, and because they were both members of the Shrek Seven Devils, that Tang San could not act on it.

Think about Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, even Oscar and the others. They had family backgrounds if they needed family backgrounds, status if they needed status, and those who knew how to conduct themselves knew how to conduct themselves. Even if they had once had grudges with Tang San, they could quickly offset them with family power or things of considerable value.

Only she and Ma Hongjun were different. One was a commoner soul master who had been driven by his martial soul to visit brothels for the first half of his life, and the other belonged to the Speed Clan, which should originally have been under the Clear Sky Sect.

It was inevitable that Tang San would look down on them, even bear grudges in his heart. It was just that in the early days, with the massive stone of Spirit Hall weighing on his heart, it had been inconvenient for him to act.

The more Bai Chenxiang thought, the more terrified she became. Having convinced herself completely, even her gaze toward Lin Wan'er became incomparably fervent. After choking up for a long while, she first simply and decisively said yes, agreeing to take the lead in becoming that sinful sect that "betrayed" soul masters and the continent.

After that, she hesitated and stalled, as if wanting to fulfill an obsession in her heart, before saying, "In this life, can I truly never meet him again?"

Seeing the elderly Bai Chenxiang looking so pitiful as she begged a little girl like herself, Lin Wan'er did not feel good either. The once-proud Bai Chenxiang, and later the humble and courteous Huo Gua, who could be called a model for their generation, had both been made incomparably unfamiliar by the Tang God King's schemes and Wenqing Valley's outrageous maneuvers.

"You can. It's just that right now, we still haven't found a way to make a person's soul thoroughly descend upon the continent as a new life."

Since God King Tang San could fish Huo Gua's mother's soul out of the lower realm from the God Realm, there was no reason Lin Wan'er, who possessed a God-level Martial Soul, could not do the same. She only needed enough time to slowly experiment.

Upon learning that the obsession she had held in her heart for so many years could become reality, and as the negative curse on her body was purified completely by the Soraka Martial Soul, Bai Chenxiang felt as much regret now as she had once felt indifference toward her and Ma Hongjun's daughter, Bai Feng.

At the thought of this, Bai Chenxiang's resentment toward Tang San grew even stronger, and the body that Lin Wan'er had just conditioned nearly returned to its original state.

Bi Ji saw it, and bitter ripples likewise rose in her heart.

At first, she had actually thought much the same as Di Tian. She had not been very willing to let the Holy Maiden interfere in the affairs of human soul masters. Especially when it involved the future of the soul beast clan, they had to be even more careful.

But now that she had seen Bai Chenxiang toyed with by a god, her heart filled with love and regret for her husband, Bi Ji could not help feeling happy for the Holy Maiden standing at the front, whose body was so small yet whose energy was so great.

"My Lord, perhaps the future our soul beast clan has long hoped for can truly be realized in the hands of our generation."

The plot concerning descendants is to lay groundwork for later developments. Some settings have been more or less changed!