Just then, Xiao Jixue's cool, indifferent voice rang out. "Master, martial uncles."
Fu Shouci turned to look and saw that, besides his own disciples,
a whole crowd of direct disciples from the other peaks had come.
Fortunately, apart from the Pill Peak disciples and his own, the others at least knew to hide themselves, lurking in the shadows to watch.
Fu Shouci's expression darkened. He cast a discreet glance at the eagerly watching Tang Yan and asked a question he already knew the answer to.
"What are you all doing here?"
Feng Sheng eagerly approached him. "Master, we came to see if there was anything we could help with."
The others nodded like chicks pecking at grain.
Xiao Jixue glanced at the tightly bound middle-aged woman and asked Fu Shouci,
"Master, is this the Demon Clan spy?"
As he spoke, he pulled Tang Yan to his side, secretly raising his guard.
Seeing this, Li Mo, Feng Sheng, and Cui Yishu immediately moved to Tang Yan's side as well, surrounding him.
Wei Lianyi had also come with the Pill Peak disciples.
Seeing that Xiao Jixue and the others were discreetly protecting Tang Yan, she quietly stood among the Pill Peak disciples.
Her calm gaze settled on the bound middle-aged woman's face, and she suddenly furrowed her delicate brows.
The intense discomfort and disgust welling up inside her left her puzzled.
When the woman on the ground heard Xiao Jixue's words, profound shock filled her eyes.
She had hidden her identity as a Demon Clan spy so well that no one had discovered her for over a decade.
How had she suddenly been exposed today?
Tang Yan eyed the middle-aged woman.
[Whoa, Master really is something. He caught a minor Demon Clan boss in one go.]
[This Elder Sun was possessed by a Demon Clan departed soul more than ten years ago. She hid in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect for over a decade without anyone noticing, only to expose herself today to save Xu Zhenzhen.]
A flicker of disbelief flashed through Fu Shouci's lowered eyes.
A Demon Clan departed soul could actually possess a cultivator?!
He sucked in a breath!
That revelation truly stunned him.
They all knew the Demon Clan could possess cultivators.
But the departed souls of the Demon Clan who were already dead could possess cultivators too!!!
And they could not detect anything amiss.
In the Immortal-Demon War a thousand years ago, tens of millions of the Demon Clan had died on the battlefield. If all those departed souls could possess others,
then wouldn't that mean...
Fu Shouci's heart was already pounding with alarm.
Liang Qiu's face was so grim it looked stormy. He was probably thinking exactly the same thing as Fu Shouci.
Tang Yan gave an amused smile. [Still, it makes sense. Xu Zhenzhen is the Demon Saint, after all. It's hardly surprising that this traitor would risk everything to save her.]
"!!!"
Feng Sheng's eyes widened, while the jaws of the Pill Peak disciples behind her practically hit the floor.
The disciples hiding in the shadows gasped silently.
Huh?! Isn't Xu Zhenzhen a woman? How is she the Demon Saint now?
Isn't the Demon Saint supposed to be male?
[Even Jiang Liu'er probably doesn't know that she was carrying boy-girl twins back then. Something happened to the male fetus, and the Demon Saint's soul inside it entered the female fetus, coexisting with the girl's soul.]
[When the female soul controls the body, Xu Zhenzhen is a normal woman. When the male soul controls it, Xu Zhenzhen has a female body and a male soul.]
As Tang Yan mulled this over, his thoughts abruptly stopped.
Then the inner voice ringing in everyone's ears took on a note of intense shock.
[Wait!! I remember the book mentioning that Xu Zhenzhen couldn't stand women around Nangong Lin, but she couldn't stand men around him either.]
[Later, after returning to the Demon Clan and becoming the Demon Saint, she sent wave after wave of assassins to kill the men and women around Nangong Lin. Even his contracted male demonic beast was nearly done in by an assassin.]
[So that means! The one who really likes Nangong Lin isn't Xu Zhenzhen, but the Demon Saint?!]
After receiving a definite answer from the system, Tang Yan was stunned, his peach-blossom eyes going perfectly round.
[Holy shit! The Demon Saint is actually gay!]
The system added, [But Xu Zhenzhen's feelings for Nangong Lin are real too.]
[Damn, Nangong Lin really deserves to be the male lead. What a charmer.]
The others exclaimed inwardly, !!! Holy shit! What the hell!
As everyone savored the gossip, they also felt deeply disappointed.
Unfortunately, Martial Uncle Nangong was currently in secluded cultivation, so they could not see his reaction to this revelation.
The Pill Peak disciples all turned their gazes toward Gu Qingling's expressionless face.
Their eyes were unmistakably full of teasing amusement.
Several of them wondered whether the female soul or the male soul had been inside Xu Zhenzhen's shell when Senior Brother Gu was with her.
If it was that Demon Saint's soul... hehehehe.
Gu Qingling appeared perfectly calm, but inwardly, he was already drowning in regret and misery.
For the love of heaven!
No wonder Xu Zhenzhen had always seemed a little off when they were together.
And worse still...
Fuck! I can't even bring myself to say it.
So the one controlling Xu Zhenzhen's body back then was that damned Demon Saint?!!
Shit! That sick freak! That sick freak!
Ah! Ah! Ah! Aaaaaah! I've been defiled!
The little figure in Gu Qingling's mind roared in a frenzy.
Had he known there was more explosive gossip about Xu Zhenzhen, he would never have come along!
Not only had he once again ended up as the subject of the gossip he had come to hear, but it had also left him deeply traumatized.
His friend Qiu Ziyuan was also in love with Xu Zhenzhen.
Earlier, the gossip about Xu Zhenzhen and the three-hundred-year-old man had not affected Qiu Ziyuan much.
Now, hearing that the male soul inside Xu Zhenzhen was gay, his face cycled through green, red, white, and black, changing colors in turn.
"I'm going inside to see what things are like in the Shadow Prison," Fu Shouci said sternly to Xu You. "Also, keep this person securely locked up. Not a single word of this can get out."
His attention had been fixed entirely on the middle-aged woman's face just now.
When his fifth disciple's inner voice rang out, the woman had not reacted in the slightest. Neither her emotions nor her gaze had changed.
Fu Shouci began to form a theory.
He suspected that Demon Clan spies and those harboring malicious intentions could not hear the things his fifth disciple revealed.
That was good, though. It worked in their favor.
With the information his fifth disciple revealed, they could secretly strike at many surviving Demon Clan remnants.
"Yes," Xu You answered.
Then Fu Shouci had Xu You and Pill Peak's Deputy Peak Master use their Pill Peak Tokens to open the Shadow Prison, and he strode inside.
Noticing that those little brats who had come for gossip and entertainment were following him in, Fu Shouci's mouth twitched, but he ultimately said nothing.
"..."
"..."
Everyone entered the Shadow Prison.
The disciples unconsciously quickened their steps.
Pill Peak's Shadow Prison held disciples or elders who had committed grave offenses.
The entire Shadow Prison was covered in layer upon layer of formations, making it exceptionally secure.
Only when Xu You and Pill Peak's Deputy Peak Master used their tokens together to deactivate one layer of formations after another could anyone enter.
Even a Mahayana Heavenly Venerable would have to expend considerable effort and employ substantial means to force their way inside.
At present, Xu Zhenzhen was the only prisoner in the Shadow Prison.
The farther they went, the clearer a certain unmentionable sound became.
Every gossip-seeker who had tagged along blushed as red as a monkey's bottom.
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