224: Don't say it!

"Hmph!"

Duan Lianxin's patience with this "Little Holy Infant" had been completely exhausted.

She was naturally a person with a very strong desire for control.

When someone who should have obeyed her didn't, it would easily provoke her into a rage.

"Someone, come!"

"Seize that infant! Do not let him disturb the guests!"

Infant?

Upon hearing this, the members of the Duan Family knew that this ancestor's attitude toward Duan Wenxian had changed.

They were overjoyed.

It seemed the ancestor had come to her senses!

[Corruption Value +30!]

In an instant.

Someone impatiently struck out, capturing the infant who was scurrying around everywhere.

They proactively sealed his spiritual meridians, making him unable to use immortal power, just like an ordinary child.

Without his disruption, the situation was quickly brought under control.

At this moment.

Duan Lianxin, as if suddenly realizing her mistake, stood up and cupped her fists to apologize to the guests: "My apologies, everyone. My indulgence of the infant caused chaos at the banquet. I shall punish myself with one jar of wine."

Everyone watched as she picked up a jar of wine and gulped it down furiously.

A large amount of wine flowed down the corners of her mouth.

After finishing the jar, the ground was covered in wine; anyone who didn't know better would have thought she had poured it all out.

"Lord Duan truly has a great capacity for wine."

"Indeed."

The surrounding people praised her without blushing or their hearts skipping a beat.

[Seeing Duan Lianxin drinking to appease the guests, you feel immensely sad.]

[You know that all of this is your fault.]

[So you decide to—]

[A: Kowtow and apologize to her.]

[B: Kowtow and apologize to the crowd.]

[C: Publicly repent for your sins and reveal your secret to show your sincerity.]

[D: Play dead.]

C!

"I'm sorry!"

At this moment, a tender and clear child's voice suddenly rang out.

Such a voice was extremely jarring on such an occasion.

Swish, swish, swish, swish!

In an instant, most people's eyes were drawn over—it was the same disruptive infant from before.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong."

The infant had crawled onto the table again at some point and said loudly to the crowd: "I shouldn't have done that. I want to repent, and at the same time, there are some things I feel I shouldn't hide."

"Heavens! Is he only three years old?"

"Yeah, to think he can say so much already and even knows how to repent?"

The guests were greatly surprised.

In fact, not just them, even many members of the Duan Family felt particularly astonished.

"No wonder he's called the Holy Infant."

"Indeed, a born True Immortal certainly has some skill..."

Duan Lianxin looked at the little baby's current sensible appearance, but her heart was filled with a sneer.

No matter how well-behaved this baby was now, he would no longer win her favor.

"Actually..."

However!

Just as Duan Wenxian was about to speak, a loud shout suddenly came from outside the hall: "Wait! Don't say it yet!"

The infant Wenxian was stunned.

But he ignored the shout and continued: "Actually, this infant is already dead. I am..."

"Shut up!!"

A figure charged in fiercely from outside.

But there were countless experts in the hall.

The figure was only halfway in when he was forcibly pinned down between two dining tables on the red-carpeted corridor by some unknown figure.

Only then did everyone see the figure's appearance clearly.

"Is that the Li Family's Imperial Son, Li Changsheng!?"

"What is he doing here? Was he invited too?"

"That's not the point. Is he trying to stop the infant from speaking? Do they know each other?"

Hiss—"Didn't you hear? What that infant just said!"

Because of Li Changsheng's arrival and the half-sentence the infant had just spoken, a bizarre atmosphere emerged in the hall.

[Corruption Value +40!]

Meanwhile.

They saw the Li Family Head, Li Beikuang, and the Zhao Family Head, Zhao Wusheng—these two great figures had actually arrived here as well!

For a moment, the entire Myriad Banquet Terrace was buzzing with discussion.

"What's going on all of a sudden?"

"I don't know, it feels like something big is about to happen."

"..."

As the spokesperson for the Duan Family and the leader of the Southern Lands.

Duan Lianxin took two steps out of the crowd, her gaze sweeping over the two family heads.

"There truly are many distinguished guests today, even the two of you have come..."

She seemed to suddenly remember something.

Her gaze lingered back and forth between Li Changsheng and Duan Wenxian.

Li Beikuang and Zhao Wusheng bowed and cupped their fists to Duan Lianxin, and then the former said: "Lord Southern Emperor must be aware of the matter at the God Sacrifice Square today."

"Correct. The reason we followed Li Changsheng."

"Is because he was looking for his 'Heavenly Mandated Protagonist' friends, so we followed him here."

"Before coming here, he had already met three of them!"

Duan Lianxin waved her hand.

The noisy hall, which had become clamorous again because of the words 'Heavenly Mandated Protagonist', quickly fell silent.

She looked at the little baby Wenxian.

Before she could ask, the other party spoke first.

"I'll say it again: actually, this infant is already dead."

"No! Don't say it!" Li Changsheng, who was pinned to the ground and unable to move, was still struggling violently.

"I am also named Duan Wenxian. I was originally a genius from the East Heaven Domain, but after dying, for some reason, I suddenly revived in this body. I suppose you could call it Borrowing a Corpse for a Soul's Return?"

The pupils of all the cultivators present dilated, their eyes filled with shock.

Is... is this true?

[Corruption Value +40!]

"The Collapsing Heavenly Dao is setting you up! Don't say it!"

"It doesn't matter. I'm telling the truth; it's better than keeping it from others like you are."

As Duan Wenxian said this, he even clapped his hands and performed many spells from his previous life to prove that what he said was not false!

But at this moment.

Most people's attention had shifted entirely to Li Changsheng.

Could his meaning be... that the soul in Li Changsheng's body... was also revived in this way?

The original Li Changsheng... was already dead!?

At the thought of this.

All the cultivators present couldn't help but feel a chilling sense of dread upon deeper reflection!

Could there be other people like this around them?

[Corruption Value +80!]

"What are you doing—!!"

Li Changsheng was dumbfounded.

He roared in extreme rage: "Why did you expose me!!"

"Hmph! I told you not to come over! You insisted on coming! This is your price!" Duan Wenxian shot back angrily.

"Didn't you say in the group that you wanted a good life! Wasn't I stopping you from saying those things for your own good!!?"

"I feel like it's your coming here that attracted the Collapsing Heavenly Dao!! Clearly, when you weren't here, I had been hiding perfectly for the past few days, and I was living very well! Now you've even mentioned the chat group; are you itching to drag all the Heavenly Mandated Protagonists down with you!?"

"Drag everyone down?"

Li Changsheng's face was flushed red from arguing with Duan Wenxian: "Do I alone have the ability to drag everyone down? Clearly, we've all been targeted by the Collapsing Heavenly Dao, yet you're here enjoying yourself so much you've forgotten your home. Clearly, you're the one holding us back!"

"You don't know yet, do you!"

"Our East Heaven Domain is about to be swallowed by this Wan Ding God Domain!"

"And you're still here playing around! When the time comes, your relatives and friends in the East Heaven Domain will all be dead!"