23: Is this even allowed? [Strip the dog]

Old Sword Demon: ...Cultivation: Dragon Elephant Peak.

Talent: Saint Demon Sword Body [Saint Grade, Mutated].

Sword Dao Profound.

destiny value: 4356 [Four-fold Destiny Bearer, can be Plundered].

Thoughts: The one surnamed Xu is actually the illegitimate son of The Glamorous Empress, hehe, Wu Feiyan plays it quite wild, what a pity, he met me... The one surnamed Cao has great ambition and is unwilling to be Wu Feiyan's sword-feeder. Now he almost killed the one surnamed Xu. He is a good person to use.

The appraisal result completely exceeded Cao Meng's expectations.

This Old Sword Demon also came from the declining Li Imperial Clan.

The grievances between Revered Master, The Empress and the remnants of the li clan need no further explanation.

"It must be my outrageous act of beating Xu Tian today that made this old fellow misunderstand... Well, then I'll play along with you."

A playful smile appeared on Cao Meng's face, and he transmitted a message: "Senior Old Sword Demon, I have an important matter at the third watch tonight, could we change it to the fifth watch?"

"Sure ~" The Old Sword Demon's voice drifted over... Before the crowd dispersed, Junior Sister Nether Pupil grabbed Cao Meng's arm and pulled him away. Senior Sister Qing Luan, seeing this, quickly followed.

In a purple bamboo forest below Ganquan Peak.

Junior Sister Nether Pupil floated barefoot, arms crossed, glaring fiercely at Cao Meng.

"Cao Meng, what exactly do you want to do? Don't you know you almost killed Junior Brother Xu Tian?"

"Wasn't it 'almost'?" Cao Meng smiled, looking at this mischievous Junior Sister.

Such a beautiful little Essence Spirit, to be ruined by that Dog Young Master would be too much of a loss. Let me, your Junior Brother, save you instead.

"Almost?" Nether Pupil was fuming. "Don't you know Junior Brother Xu Tian is Master's precious darling? You actually wanted to kill him? Are you trying to rebel?"

"Junior Sister, you've misunderstood. I've long known that Junior Brother Xu Tian's talent is extraordinary and he's not that easy to kill. So I was just teaching him a lesson on behalf of Master on how to be a person." Cao Meng said with a chuckle; "These past years, Junior Brother Xu Tian lacked guidance, which led to his arrogant and overbearing personality. So I, your Junior Brother, just taught him a small lesson to let him know about the hardships of the world and the wickedness of human hearts."

"Hehe, so you're saying you're in the right?" Nether Pupil looked at Cao Meng with a mocking expression.

"Then what about making Junior Brother Xu Tian kneel and call you 'daddy' in public? What do you say to that!"

Cao Meng chuckled: "Because I really want to be his daddy, haha ~"

Senior Sister Qing Luan's beautiful eyes widened at the side.

"Traitor, I'll kill you ~" Nether Pupil was furious, and with a flick of her small whip, she attacked Cao Meng.

Qing Luan quickly intervened: "Junior Sister, don't be reckless, Junior Brother is still injured!"

"Traitor, you just wait. I'll tell Master about this." Nether Pupil glared hatefully at Cao Meng, then stormed off towards Ganquan Palace... "What? Make Tian'er call him 'daddy'? And smash Tian'er's head?"

Inside Ganquan Palace, The Empress almost fainted on the spot when she heard the news.

"Master, don't worry, Junior Brother Xu Tian isn't dead..." Nether Pupil quickly supported Wu Feiyan and recounted exactly what she had witnessed.

Hearing that Xu Tian was not dead, The Empress also recovered her composure.

Upon hearing that her arch-rival Xuanyuan Baizhi had taken Xu Tian as a Disciple, a playful smile appeared on Wu Feiyan's exquisite face.

"Master, this Cao Meng is naturally rebellious. He actually wanted to kill Junior Brother and even made Junior Brother kneel and call him 'daddy'. You absolutely cannot let him off lightly..." Nether Pupil chattered on.

"Enough, I will handle this matter myself. You may leave first!"

"Yes ~"

As Nether Pupil walked out of the main hall, she ran into Cao Meng.

"You're dead, kid!" Nether Pupil squeezed out a few words from her small mouth.

"Junior Sister, you're still too young." Cao Meng chuckled, then swaggered into the hall.

Seeing Cao Meng enter, Wu Feiyan deliberately turned her head, looking very angry.

"Master, what's wrong? Who made you angry?" Cao Meng leaned behind The Empress, asking with a chuckle.

"Hmph ~"

The Empress suddenly turned her head, her foxy eyes staring intently at Cao Meng, her profound gaze seemingly wanting to see through his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.

This Evil Disciple, his methods are so vicious, treating Tian'er's head like a watermelon to smash.

They say one should show respect for the monk's sake, if not for the Buddha's.

What he did was utterly heartless and unjust.

My old lady... he really has a black heart!

Wu Feiyan suddenly felt a sense of having entrusted her trust to the wrong person.

Cao Meng felt a bit uncomfortable under her gaze, and coughed twice, "Well, Master, you might have misunderstood me. Actually, I had already seen through Xu Tian's true nature. This boy's true spirit was entrusted to a nine revolutions immortal fruit for Reincarnation. He was born with nine lives and can revive after death.

So I was simply trying to teach him a lesson on behalf of Master, lest he be ignorant of his own depth and get killed by others. I never really intended to kill him."

"What?" Wu Feiyan's expression changed dramatically.

"True spirit entrusted to a nine revolutions immortal fruit... a Reincarnation?"

Wu Feiyan naturally knew that Xu Tian was born after she ate an unnamed immortal fruit and "spat out the seed."

She had never told anyone about this matter.

Everyone in the world believed that Xu Tian was her and Dragon Martial's son; even her two Disciples, Qing Luan and Nether Pupil, didn't know.

However, Wu Feiyan did not know that the immortal fruit was called the Nine Revolutions Spirit Devouring Immortal Fruit, nor did she know that a Reincarnated true spirit was entrusted to the spiritual fruit.

How did this kid know?

Also, what was the origin of that Reincarnated true spirit?

"How did you know?" Wu Feiyan looked at Cao Meng with suspicion.

"How I knew?" Cao Meng smiled slightly, placing his hands on The Empress's shoulders: "With your assistance, Master, Disciple awakened a very powerful Heavenly Secret Calculation technique. Many people, I can know their origins just by looking at them."

"For example, Master, you entered Cultivation Technique Reincarnation."

"And that Sword Demon Li Daoxuan, he is a remnant of the Li Imperial Clan."

The Empress listened quietly, her expression also changing unpredictably.

No wonder this kid is so brave; it turns out he had already seen through my outwardly strong but inwardly weak facade.

"What about Xu Tian then? What was his past life's origin?" When Xu Tian was mentioned, Wu Feiyan's expression immediately became tense.

If Xu Tian was merely a spirit fruit manifesting a body for Reincarnation, then it would be nothing.

After all, she had poured twenty years of effort into him, so this nominal son could be considered a son, even without a blood relation.

But if it was... "Alas ~"

Cao Meng sighed slightly, "Master, the truth might disappoint you."

"Do you know Li Yan!"

"Li Yan?" Wu Feiyan pondered for a moment, and then a look of shock appeared on her exquisite face. Her slender hands suddenly gripped Cao Meng's arms.

"It's him? Li Yan, the Flame Sword Immortal who emerged from the Li Clan Sword Tomb! Are you sure?"

Cao Meng nodded: "Absolutely and positively sure!"

"So it was him... That's right, outside the Qilin Cold Pond, Li Yan did indeed die there. I never expected it, hehe..." Wu Feiyan laughed self-deprecatingly.

Raising a wolf as a dog.

Raising an enemy as a son.

How laughable ~

And I was kept in the dark. If not for this Evil Disciple seeing through him...

Xu Tian: destiny value - 500

destiny value + 500

Wu Feiyan: destiny value + 200

destiny value + 100