Revealing the Secrets of Exiled Immortal 20: Tangling's Future Setup Through the Truth of the Chi Family Tragedy (Heavenly Dao Xiao Hua)

Summary: 68 chapters of Exiled Immortal's Immortal Realm have already been uploaded. Its main storyline follows Xiao Hua's various experiences along his road of escape, as well as the karmic entanglements of the people and events within those experiences. These karmic ties will in turn become hidden threads for the future, or various side threads will converge directly into logical inevitability. The hidden threads include the Purple Gold Ship, Mount Moban, and the refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit; examples of side threads converging into logical inevitability include Primordial Spirit Mountain, whose people repeatedly regarded Xiao Hua as a spy, and Seven Spirits Mountain, which everyone mentioned. In other words, various karmic ties and opportunities will certainly push Xiao Hua toward Seven Spirits Mountain and Primordial Spirit Mountain. That is beside the point and needs no further elaboration. This article will discuss the truth behind the Chi Family Tragedy, which many readers in the review section failed to understand, then peel back the cocoon and draw out Tangling's foreshadowing and setup.

The truth of the Chi Family Tragedy was this: Chi Xiaoxia's father, Chi Zhongping, had long since been killed and replaced through a sleight of hand. The motive for the murder was the secret of the Golden Wood Thunder Eye. The reasons were as follows:

I. The crime scene

1. There were no signs of struggle at the crime scene. Chi Zhongping and Chi Zhicheng had died very quietly, while Chi Yuxing's death was strange, and he had died with his eyes open. The shocked expression on his face showed that the Chi Family Tragedy had not been committed by several assailants, but by an acquaintance.

2. Considering the strength of everyone in the Immortal County Prefecture, whoever killed all three members of the Chi family had done so with almost no one in the Chi family reacting. Referring also to Xiao Hua's great battle with Wang Lang, a Guiding Emissary at the Leak Immortal level, and the fact that Chi Xiaoxia's two brothers were both at the Leak Immortal level, it could be inferred that this was not the work of an acquaintance from the Immortal County Prefecture. The so-called Death Spirit Cavalry was merely a deliberately planted smokescreen by Tangling.

Conclusion: From the clues at the crime scene alone, it could be inferred that the murderer was among the three deceased, and was neither Chi Zhongping nor Chi Zhicheng. Yet Chi Zhongping and Chi Zhicheng were subsequently killed as well, which showed that something was amiss with the two of them. Considering that Chi Zhicheng had only just arrived at the Immortal County Prefecture because it was the anniversary of his mother's death, Chi Zhongping was the most suspicious. But Chi Zhongping had also killed himself, so it could be inferred that he had long since been killed. The Chi Zhongping who had spoken with Chi Xiaoxia late at night was not Chi Zhongping himself, but someone who had replaced him through a sleight of hand!

II. Who exactly killed Chi Zhongping and replaced him?

I believe that an Immortal Puppet killed Chi Zhongping and replaced him. The reasons were as follows:

1. Zhang Xiao Hua's bracelet was called Light Reversal and could trace back light. Through "Exiled Immortal Side Story: The Person Floating in the Void," we learned that Zhang Xiao Hua's memories had been sealed by Light Reversal and could only be unsealed as his cultivation rose.

2. The memory fragments Xiao Hua saw when Wang Lang's Immortal Puppet self-destructed were actually Light Reversal tracing back light. The Immortal Puppet in Xiao Hua's memory fragments and Chi Zhongping's face had both been remembered with such clarity, showing that they shared an inner consistency: stiff expressions, or perhaps expressionless faces.

3. In "Chapter Sixty-Six: Xiang Qiong," Xiang Qiong had immediately tried to kill Chi Xiaoxia. Chi Xiaoxia had lived in seclusion at the Hidden Lake Residence for many years and could be said never to have had any interaction with Xiang Qiong. Yet Xiang Qiong, as Shuobing's attendant, did not go kill Xiao Hua, but instead went after Chi Xiaoxia. Coupled with Wang Lang's Immortal Puppet self-destructing, Xiang Qiong was also an Immortal Puppet. The order given by his master was to kill the entire Chi family. One point needed to be added:

Any immortal artifact with an artifact spirit was an exceptionally powerful immortal artifact, especially one with Five Elements properties. For example, the earth-yellow Kirin Spirit that appeared when Xiao Hua underwent tribulation was an earth-element spell; the white tiger phantom Xiang Qiong casually thrust out was a metal-element spell. Both were extraordinarily powerful and incredibly formidable.

4. Referring to the refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit muttering to himself, it could be inferred that even if Xiao Hua had not refined the Spirit Execution Yuan Guang and stolen the artifact spirit of the Slaughter Immortal artifact, the Chi family would sooner or later have been exterminated. The reason lay in the Golden Wood Thunder Eye.

Conclusion: In order to protect the secret of the Golden Wood Thunder Eye, the refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit sent his incarnation Xiang Kui and numerous Immortal Puppets to the Chi family. However, because Chi Zhongping was a Cavalry Lord and had many soldiers accompanying him when he traveled, because Chi Xiaoxia's brothers were absent, and because the person who refined the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit did not wish to offend the Azure Cloud Sect too deeply, he finally found an opportunity to first kill Chi Zhongping, then use a heaven-stealing, sun-swapping technique to replace him. He then used the anniversary of their mother's death to summon Chi Xiaoxia's two brothers. The Immortal Puppet carrying a trace of Primordial Spirit then killed the eldest and second sons of the Chi family before taking Chi Zhongping's corpse out of its storage ring. This was also the reason for the shocked expression on Chi Yuxing's face and why he died with his eyes open.

III. The case within the Chi Family Tragedy: the Death Spirit Cavalry and Xiang Qiong's death

1. The true murderer of the Chi family was Xiang Kui, not the Death Spirit Cavalry.

After the three Chi men died, it made sense that their immortal marks were shattered, since immortals in the Immortal Realm did not die as long as their immortal marks remained intact. But half of Chi Zhongping's head had been blasted away, and his abdomen had been hollowed out. What had been removed from his abdomen was his Nascent Soul. In other words, the murderer deliberately diverted attention and pinned the Chi family bloodbath on the Death Spirit Cavalry. The murderer was Xiang Kui, the Immortal Puppet of the refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit—an immortal carrying a trace of Primordial Spirit.

In "Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Strange Truth," when Xiang Qiong imprisoned Xiao Hua and Chi Xiaoxia, his expression changed in all sorts of ways: "Xiang Qiong's face began to change again. First it was Chi Zhongping's face, then an old man's face, followed by a middle-aged immortal's face, then one after another, as though he were changing masks." These people were all connected to the victims. From this, it could be inferred that they were all former Cavalry Lords. Their deaths had not come at the hands of the so-called "Death Spirit Cavalry," but from the enormous secret of the Hidden Lake Residence that possessed the "Golden Wood Thunder Eye." Just think: when that immortal who refined the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit discovered the emissary of Venerable Yue Zhen, he directly shattered Chi Xiaoxia's soul in order to guard the secret of the Golden Wood Thunder Eye.

2. Xiang Qiong was already dead.

Tangling deliberately laid out a confusing trap: Xiang Kui and Xiang Qiong both shared the character Xiang, intending to mislead us into thinking they were connected. In truth, the real "Xiang Qiong" had already died. "When Xiang Qiong had just arrived at Helan Que with Qiu Bochong, he still wore a respectful smile," but now he was expressionless. This could only mean that the real Xiang Qiong had been killed and replaced by an Immortal Puppet. The so-called Death Spirit Cavalry was nothing more than a tragedy directed by Xiang Kui alone!

IV. Tangling's future setup

1. Chi Xiaoxia's revenge

The Heavenly Dao was just, and the Heavenly Dao was constant. No matter how shrewd the calculations, before the Heavenly Dao they were nothing more than child's play. The refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit had Xiang Kui kill Xiang Qiong in order to protect the secret of the "Golden Wood Thunder Eye" in the "Hidden Lake Residence," never realizing that Chi Xiaoxia had already told Xiao Hua this secret. Shuobing obtained a great opportunity after spending only a short time in the Immortal Realm behind Xiao Hua's head; Chi Xiaoxia, whose soul had been shattered, would remain for a very long time in the space behind Xiao Hua's head. Moreover, the Immortal Realm behind Xiao Hua's head was far from taking shape. Chi Xiaoxia's future opportunities and prospects were thus destined to be immeasurable! When Chi Xiaoxia's cultivation reached great completion and he began his revenge, the refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit and Xiang Kui, who stirred up wind and rain, would be destined to share the fate of the two old men who searched Xiao Hua's soul and sealed him on Xiaoyu Continent.

2. The refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit's grand gift of Thunder Eyes and opportunities

From the refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit muttering to himself, we learned that there were multiple Thunder Eyes, scattered across different places. Then we could speculate whether there might be other Thunder Eyes in the Tianwu Immortal Domain where Thunder True Person resided. These Thunder Eyes were destined to become Thunder True Person's opportunities in the future. Furthermore, there were many damaged fragments of Xiao Hua's Immortal Slaying Platform in the Immortal Realm. Could some of these Thunder Eyes have been formed from fragments of the Immortal Slaying Platform? I firmly believed that they had. Since the refiner of the Slaughter Immortal Artifact Spirit could kill the many Cavalry Lords of the Helan Que Immortal County Prefecture, he would also kill the occupiers of other Thunder Eyes for this reason. Today's cause had already planted tomorrow's fruit. He might become yet another opportunity for Xiao Hua to advance the Dao of Karma in the Immortal Realm.