Li Xiaoya's heart grew unbearably heavy at what he had uncovered through the soul search. "Why?" he murmured. "Why would you do this? People like us would give our lives for the sect, yet you slaughter your fellow disciples and eat away at its foundations..." Suddenly, he roared, "I'll wipe out you woodworms!" Brilliant red light flared around his hand as he pointed a finger.
Whoosh! Flames blazed, instantly burning the middle-aged cultivator and every treasure on him to ashes. Li Xiaoya's face remained twisted with fury. The flames died down, but the anger filling his chest would not subside. His aura was terrifying, making the entire mountain cave tremble. Fortunately, he had already placed restrictions around the cave to keep spiritual qi from leaking out. Otherwise, the whole cave might have collapsed.
Unbeknownst to Li Xiaoya, the stunning woman lying on the ground quietly closed her open eyes and remained perfectly still.
"..." Only after considerable effort did Li Xiaoya finally calm himself. This affair had truly left him seething. It had been a perfectly good sect. Although Elder Ma had always opposed him, and Ma Weiqi had once struck treacherously at him, Zhang Hong, and their fellow disciples, Li Xiaoya had never dwelled on those matters. After all, Ma Weiqi was already dead. He had assumed Elder Ma only opposed him because he had humiliated the elder on the Dueling Platform years ago. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that Elder Ma was secretly teaching his disciples the Yin-Stealing Yang-Nourishing demonic cultivation method, murdering fellow disciples, and killing people to silence them.
In that case, had Ma Weiqi pursued Zhang Hong for the same reason back then? After all, Ma Weiqi had reportedly harmed several female disciples, only for Elder Ma to do everything in his