Logic Wasn't Wrong

Fairy Xueyun held Jiang Wan in her arms and glared at Madam Li as she demanded:

"Madam Li, why did you try to kill Wanwan? She was raised by your side for three years. Did you truly have not even the slightest affection for her?"

Nestled in Fairy Xueyun's arms, Jiang Wan reminded her:

"Mother, she said she was the one who switched us back then. She never liked Wanwan from the beginning."

At her reminder, an Ice Sword appeared in Fairy Xueyun's hand, its tip aimed at Madam Li.

Madam Li's eyes flickered, and she suddenly burst into crazed laughter.

"Ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha! Why did I do this?

Wasn't it all for the sake of the entire Cultivation World? She—she would become the Demon Venerable in the future. She would slaughter the entire Cultivation World, turning it into a river of blood. You would all die at her hands.

I foresaw the future. I wanted to kill this fiend while she was still young. Yet a fiend was a fiend—I threw her into the Myriad Snake Den beneath the Gale Force, and she still did not die. If she was not a fiend, then what was she?

If you do not kill her today, you will regret it!"

The moment Fairy Xueyun saw Jiang Wan's Lightning Spiritual Root, she completely stopped believing that Jiang Wan would descend into the demonic path in the future.

"You are talking nonsense! My daughter will never enter the demonic path. Tell me, how could someone with an Innate Lightning Spiritual Root possibly fall into demonhood?"

Jiang Wan did not understand this matter well enough. Does having a Lightning Spiritual Root mean one cannot fall into demonhood?

Wouldn't someone with a Lightning Spiritual Root be even more terrifying after falling into demonhood?

At present, cultivators understood Thunder Spiritual Power as the bane of all Demons and Monsters.

So they believed that people with Lightning Spiritual Roots could not fall into demonhood?

Unable to make sense of it, Jiang Wan looked at Madam Li across from her, only to see that Madam Li was already utterly shocked, staring at her in disbelief.

"Impossible, impossible! How could she have a Lightning Spiritual Root? She was clearly a Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root. How could she have an extra Lightning Spiritual Root? There clearly was no Lightning Spiritual Root when her spiritual roots were tested back then!

You are lying to me, aren't you?

To protect her, you actually came up with such a lie."

Everyone watched as Madam Li descended into complete madness. Bound within the circle by spiritual power, she still struggled frantically to rush out, stretching out her hands as though she wanted to seize Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan shrank deeper into Fairy Xueyun's arms. Had Madam Li gone mad?

Could she have been talking about this body's previous life?

But the system said it was Jiang Wan herself, a Soul from Another World.

Forget all that messy nonsense. Jiang Wan only wanted to ask:

"How does she know these things? Can she truly foresee the future?"

Venerable Wanhe narrowed his eyes.

"I suggest we do not kill her yet. Perhaps she knows even more."

Venerable Yu Yi raised a hand and struck Madam Li, who was imprisoned within the circle. Others could not touch her, but he could; this magical treasure belonged to him in the first place.

"Venerable Wanhe, do not let her deceive you. If this old man's guess is correct, she is the demonic cultivator.

When she came to find me early this morning, she had a short blade tainted with demonic qi on her.

We already saw it through the Mysterious Sky Treasure Mirror. She injured herself. Where did that demonic artifact come from?

It was clearly her. She was an infiltrator sent by the Demonic Sect, specifically to slaughter the new Heavenly Prodigies of our sect. She must have learned that my disciple possessed a Lightning Spiritual Root and feared that she would threaten the Demonic Sect in the future. That was why she had schemed in every possible way to eliminate my disciple before she had come into her own.

"Hmph. This so-called foresight is nothing but a deceitful trick. Tell me, if she truly could foresee the future, would she still be a mere Qi Cultivation Level 6?

She would have long since foreseen where treasures would emerge and where ancient caves lay. Wouldn't she have gotten good things until her hands went soft? Who would not hide away to cultivate instead, yet come here to make trouble for a child?"

Jiang Wan silently gave her master a thumbs-up. He was a logic genius—somehow, it actually made perfect sense.

Once everyone heard this, they thought of the same point, and their expressions toward Madam Li became strange.

Fairy Xueyun demanded sharply:

"Madam Li, what else do you have to explain?"

Madam Li looked toward Jiang Yao. If she knew of any treasures or immortal abodes, she truly would have gone herself.

Jiang Yao suddenly burst into tears.

"Waaah! Don't hit Yaoyao, Mother! Yaoyao was wrong! Yaoyao never had any dream foresight. It was all her—it was her who told Yaoyao to say those things! Waaah, Yaoyao knows nothing!"

Madam Li stared at Jiang Yao with her eyes wide in shock. What did she mean by this? Did she want Madam Li to shoulder all the blame herself?

She immediately stood and slammed herself against the light barrier imprisoning her.

"Why? Why did you bring back that little bitch? If she had not returned, my daughter would have been the precious daughter of the Myriad Talisman Sect's Sect Master, able to enjoy all the Myriad Talisman Sect's resources.

But she came back and stole Yao Yao's cultivation resources. I killed her! I am going to kill her—aaahhh!"

Venerable Yu Yi reached into the circle and performed Soul Searching on Madam Li. A moment later, he flung her to the ground. With a raise of his hand, the circle tightened, grinding Madam Li into dust until even her ashes vanished.

Jiang Wan sighed in admiration. As expected of a Spirit Transmutation Cultivator—what formidable methods.

[Congratulations, you have successfully kicked away a stumbling block on the road to redemption. Removing her must have taken tremendous resolve. Your efforts will not be in vain; the Heavenly Dao will eventually see them.]

Task completed.

Task reward: Many Children, Many Blessings Pill.

At last, the reward had been given. It just seemed that she did not need it for the time being, so she would continue leaving it in the system backpack.

Jiang Wan turned to look at Jiang Yao. Jiang Yao's face was expressionless.

"Jiang Yao, your mother is dead. Why are you not sad?"

Jiang Yao's little face tried to sneer, then shifted into a wronged expression, making her look rather strange.

"Little sister, she raised you for over three years, and you spent more time with her. Shouldn't you be the one who ought to feel sad?

Although she was my birth mother, I only spent two or three months with her. She even made me deceive Mother before. Yaoyao did not like her, but Yaoyao is still sad."

Jiang Wan rolled her eyes and wrapped her little arms around Fairy Xueyun.

"When she raised me, she often beat me and even wanted to kill me. After all, she was not my real mother. I still like my real mother better. Mother, it was truly wonderful that you found Wanwan so quickly."

Fairy Xueyun held Jiang Wan and kissed her cheeks, which had grown fuller than before. So it had all been Madam Li's deliberate doing. Thank goodness, thank goodness.

From now on, she would treat her daughter even better to make up for the days she had doubted her. She truly should not have done that.

Seeing Jiang Yao also move closer, Fairy Xueyun unusually did not reach out to hold her.

Venerable Yu Yi opened Madam Li's Storage Bag and actually found a Curved Saber tainted with demonic qi inside.

Madam Li had prepared it to frame demonic cultivators next time, but she had not had time to hide it.

"She truly was an infiltrator sent by the demonic cultivators. Look, she even had a demonic artifact on her. Hmph, such petty tricks from demonic cultivators, and she still wanted to frame my disciple."

As Venerable Yu Yi spoke, he wore an expression of utter disdain. He tucked both hands into his sleeves, raised his chin, and walked over to Jiang Wan.

"Now that the truth has come to light, come. Follow your master to entertain the guests and meet those old fellows."

Seeing the old man strut like a victorious rooster, even walking with an arrogant outward stance, Jiang Wan climbed out of Fairy Xueyun's arms.

"Mother, I'll go with Master first. I'll give you something good later."