211: Chapter 211 Xiao Nianyin was powerless against Mo Hehuan.

Mo Hehuan knew that since Revered Master had personally taught the One Sword of Emotional Heaven to Xu Ruyu (or at the very least, allowed him to inherit it), then Revered Master's intentions were already abundantly clear!

Xu Ruyu was highly likely the successor chosen by Revered Master, or at the very least, someone she regarded with great importance!

And Xiao Nianyin, this Sect Master of Hehuan Sect from a later generation, was actually going to harm Xu Ruyu out of greed for this Legacy? And with such a despicable excuse at that?

What made Mo Hehuan even more furious was that from those fragmented accounts, she could also discern that between Xiao Nianyin and Xu Ruyu, there seemed to be an ambiguous "karmic entanglement" due to the initial "summoning" and "Dual Cultivation."

Xu Ruyu had cared for Xiao Nianyin when she lost all her Cultivation, and later might have even taken the initiative to do something (Dual Cultivation) to help her recover. Yet, what he received in return was not gratitude, but suspicion, greed, and murderous intent?!

This was no longer simple ingratitude; this was a complete distortion of Heart-Nature, a descent into the Demonic Path!

Mo Hehuan walked step by step towards the center of the Law Execution Platform, towards the area directly beneath Xiao Nianyin.

With every step she took, the pressure on her body grew heavier, and the coldness in her gaze intensified.

Chen Yongheng, Li Mubai, Ancestor Qinglian, and other Ancestral Master Divine Soul forms now understood the sequence of events, and their expressions were extremely grim, their gazes towards Xiao Nianyin filled with disdain, disappointment, and anger.

Although they had been beaten badly by the Little Girl, they had only felt embarrassed and aggrieved; in essence, they had not harmed the Sect's Foundation.

But Xiao Nianyin's behavior was a blatant betrayal of morality, an act of defying one's Revered Master and destroying the ancestors (attempting to harm someone valued by the Revered Master), and a sign of a twisted mind!

This was even harder for them to accept than being slapped in the face!

Dozens, no, nearly a hundred gazes from the Divine Soul forms of Hehuan Sect's sages through the ages, like tangible sharp swords, pierced straight at Xiao Nianyin!

In these gazes, there was the dignified scrutiny of the founding Ancestral Master, the indifferent disappointment of the Ascended Ancestral Masters, and the disdain and anger of powerful figures from past generations... Each gaze represented a glorious history of the Hehuan Sect and a moral code of its Legacy.

Gathered together at this moment, the pressure formed was simply like the sky collapsing, a collective condemnation from the ages!

Xiao Nianyin hovered in the air. Her Dao Heart, already weakened by being purified by the Little Girl's "One Sword of Emotional Heaven" earlier, was like a lone boat in a storm under this concentrated gaze of the Hehuan Sect's eight thousand years of heritage and ancestral will; it swayed violently and was on the verge of collapse in an instant!

She felt as if her Divine Soul had been stripped bare and thrown into a frozen wasteland, enduring the slow execution of countless cold, bone-piercing gazes.

Those gazes seemed to be able to pierce through her Physical Body, looking straight into the darkest corners of her heart, exposing all of her selfishness, greed, paranoia, and fear!

"Ugh..."

Xiao Nianyin let out a muffled groan, her whole body trembling violently, her long hair dancing wildly without wind, and an unnatural flush appeared on her originally pale face as a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

She gritted her teeth, trying hard to circulate the remaining spiritual energy of the Mystic Maidens Sun-Stealing Art to steady her mind. But in the face of the vast will of the ancestors, which represented "orthodoxy" and "original intent," her Cultivation Technique, filled with plunder and paranoia, instead became her greatest flaw, inviting even stronger rejection and suppression!

She seemed to see the phantom images of past Ancestral Masters appearing around her, silently gazing at her, their eyes filled with sighs, disappointment, and coldness, but never approval.

Mo Hehuan finally walked directly beneath Xiao Nianyin. She looked up at the current Sect Master, who was on the verge of losing her mind, and her voice was cold, like ten-thousand-year-old ice:

"Xiao Nianyin."

Just three words, yet they struck like a heavy hammer against Xiao Nianyin's crumbling mental defenses.

"You have been practicing the Mystic Maidens Sun-Stealing Art?"

Mo Hehuan's gaze seemed able to see through everything, her tone carrying a deep sense of disappointment.

"No wonder... your temperament has become so isolated and arrogant, and your actions so overbearing and ruthless. As a woman in charge of the Hehuan Sect, you only know how to use force to suppress others and power to serve your own selfish interests, completely losing the true meaning of the two words 'Hehuan'."

She paused, her voice tinged with reminiscence and heartache: "When I founded the Hehuan Sect back then, I contemplated the 'Dao of Qingtian' and established the name 'Hehuan', intending it to mean 'mutual affection, shared joy, and joining together to contemplate the Dao'!"

"It was my hope that the Disciples could realize the Heavenly Dao through true emotion and joy, clarify their hearts and see their nature, and achieve success together!"

"Instead of letting you descendants of later generations only fixate on the power of Cultivation Techniques, only thinking of plundering shortcuts, becoming strong just for the sake of strength, completely disregarding the original intent of Cultivation, and misinterpreting 'Hehuan' as indulgence, control, and plunder!"

Her voice rose sharply, filled with fury: "You have long since deviated from the original intent I had when I founded the Hehuan Sect! You are walking on a path of self-destruction!"

Xiao Nianyin was struck as if by lightning; her body swayed, and she nearly fell from the air.

Mo Hehuan's words were like knives, slicing open the darkness deep within her heart that she had always refused to face.

Indeed, from the day she chose the Mystic Maidens Sun-Stealing Art, her Dao had already gone astray.

Power came too fast, too easily, but it also caused her to lose too much.

Mo Hehuan continued her reprimand, her gaze like a torch: "Xiao Nianyin, Xu Ruyu is the 'Personal Disciple' you designated yourself, and he was also forcibly summoned from another world by you using forbidden arts like 'Dream Induction'!"

"Your loss of Cultivation and the imbalance of your Yin and Yang were caused entirely by your own pursuit of evil Cultivation Techniques and your eagerness for quick success!"

"Your loss of chastity and your predicament were seeds of disaster sown the moment you chose the Mystic Maidens Sun-Stealing Art!"

"These are all your own choices, your own faults!"

She extended her finger, pointing at Xiao Nianyin from afar, her voice extremely stern: "But what about you? What did you do? Instead of reflecting on yourself, you blamed all your faults on an innocent victim! On Xu Ruyu!"

"You coveted the Legacy he might possess, were jealous of his connection with... with the Elder (she glanced at the Little Girl), and so you wanted to put him to death on trumped-up charges, engaging in coercion and plunder!"

"Xiao Nianyin! Ask yourself, do you have even a shred of the responsibility required of a Sect Master, or a shred of the conscience required of a practitioner of the Dao?!"

"Boom—!"

This rebuke, like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens, exploded in Xiao Nianyin's ears and in the hearts of all the Hehuan Sect members!

Many Disciples and Elders who had originally held the Sect Master in awe, and even felt that although the Sect Master's actions were harsh, they were still for the sake of the Sect, now recalled Xiao Nianyin's increasingly cold and paranoid style in recent years, as well as her various actions towards Xu Ruyu today. Contrasting this with the founding Ancestral Master's rebuke, they were suddenly struck by a feeling of sudden realization mixed with fear.

So... the Sect Master had truly deviated from the original intent of the Sect's founding? Had she suffered Qi Deviation?

Xiao Nianyin could no longer hold on; she spat out a large mouthful of blood with a "pfft," her aura instantly withering to the extreme. Like a kite with a broken string, she slowly fell from the air, stumbling as she landed on the Law Execution Platform, dropping to one knee, barely managing not to collapse.

She lowered her head, her ice-blue long hair draping down, covering her pale and vacant face; only her shoulders were trembling slightly.

Mo Hehuan looked at her coldly and said nothing more.

What needed to be said had been said; whether she could awaken was up to Xiao Nianyin's own fortune.

If she remained obsessed and unrepentant, then this position of Sect Master of Hehuan Sect would have to change hands.