Shen Fan wakes up in the Blood Refining Sect, and the Tianxuan Sect holds the Ice and Fire Sect accountable.

When Shen Fan opened his eyes, he found himself in a dimly lit room.

“You’re awake?”

A cold, indifferent voice came from beside him.

Shen Fan wanted to sit up, but he found that he had no strength at all.

“Your Spiritual Qi is exhausted, and your vital essence is depleted; you need to rest for a period of time. For the next few days, just stay here and recuperate!”

“Who are you? Where is this?”

Shen Fan slightly turned his head and finally saw the person's appearance.

Long, straight hair fell over his shoulders, a loose red blood-robe was worn on his body, and his Face was pale, giving him a feminine and alluring beauty.

However, he was a man!

“This is the Blood Refinement Sect’s sub-temple. I am the Sect Master of the Blood Refinement Sect, Sect Leader Li Huanxue!”

“Sect Master?”

Shen Fan again propped himself up, trying to sit, but Sect Leader Li Huanxue directly stopped him.

“You should still lie down!”

“Disciple Shen Fan greets the Sect Master!”

Although Shen Fan couldn't sit up, he still respectfully greeted him verbally.

“You are quite good; you didn’t even die from that!”

Sect Leader Li Huanxue seemed somewhat surprised and shocked, “You are also very smart. You learned the Blood Locust Divine Skill, and you even knew to combine it with a strange and overbearing Cultivation Technique like the Three Fiends Soul Slaughtering Sword. It’s a pity your talent is a bit low, but you even joined the Nine Underworld Corpse Kui Sect and used the Nine Netherworld Corpse Refining Art to assist your Cultivation, completely making up for that shortcoming of talent!”

At this moment, in Sect Leader Li Huanxue’s eyes, Shen Fan was like a person without clothes, completely exposed.

“If talent isn’t enough, then one can only find another way!” Shen Fan said with a bitter smile.

“But this kind of reckless approach of yours requires a large amount of vital essence. How do you replenish that?”

Sect Leader Li Huanxue asked.

“For vital essence replenishment, this Disciple hasn’t thought of any good method yet. I still have a conscience and cannot kill innocent people indiscriminately. This time, it was truly because Jia Chengxin went too far, which is why I was determined to kill him at all costs!”

Shen Fan replied sincerely.

Sect Leader Li Huanxue didn't doubt anything, merely nodding silently.

“Then you should rest well!”

With that, he prepared to leave.

“Sect Master, I need to hurry back! Over four hundred Tianxuan Sect Disciples, including an Inner Elder, died, and only I survived. I’m afraid they will suspect me!”

Shen Fan gritted his teeth and sat up, saying.

“I must return to my family now. Jia Chengxin bullied our family, causing us to give all our family property to the Lu family. As long as I go back, they won't be suspicious!”

Sect Leader Li Huanxue nodded with satisfaction: “Although you were determined to kill this Jia Chengxin regardless of the cost, you were also fully prepared, even thinking of such a retreat. You, young man, have both courage and strategy. Not bad, not bad!”

Sect Leader Li Huanxue’s gaze towards Shen Fan grew increasingly satisfied.

“However…”

Sect Leader Li Huanxue changed the subject, “I suggest you still don’t go back. Over four hundred people were killed for no reason, and only you survived. Even if you have some ideas, you won't escape punishment. If you go back now, there’s only a dead end. The Tianxuan Sect acts without distinguishing right from wrong, and for Xue Qiutian, he doesn’t need any reason for anything he does. At that time, you will only become a sacrifice for those departed souls!”

“Ah? Then what should I do in the future?!”

“Why continue to stay in such a dilapidated Sect?” Sect Leader Li Huanxue said disdainfully.

“But, that place was originally the former site of the Nine Underworld Corpse Kui Sect, and I still need to help Senior Sister Li Wan’er find the Corpse King!”

Shen Fan said helplessly.

“Then you decide for yourself!”

Sect Leader Li Huanxue no longer participated in Shen Fan’s decisions. Having reached his Realm, he no longer intervened in others' Karma.

If Sect Leader Li Huanxue were to forcibly interfere with Shen Fan’s decision, leading to Shen Fan’s death and the dissipation of his Dao, then he would have to bear that Karma.

He was still young now, with the potential to break through to the Nascent Soul Dao.

If Karma were to befall him, it would be troublesome then!

Shen Fan pondered slightly and said with concentration: “I still plan to go back and see!”

“I checked before; among the Tianxuan Sect people, I didn’t see Lu Qingzhu. Presumably, Lu Qingzhu didn’t leave with Jia Chengxin and the others at that time, but stayed at home. Now, Lu Qingzhu should still be in Nantiancheng.”

“As long as I go back immediately and return to my family, when the Tianxuan Sect people find me, I will have a countermeasure!”

“Then what if they use the Soul Searching Technique?” Sect Leader Li Huanxue retorted.

“I have my own countermeasure!” Shen Fan said confidently.

“Oh?”

This sentence immediately made Sect Leader Li Huanxue raise an eyebrow.

There were ways to resist the Soul Searching Technique's search, and Sect Leader Li Huanxue knew quite a few.

It seemed Shen Fan also had his own Opportunity.

Seeing this, Sect Leader Li Huanxue did not press further, but nodded silently: “Since that’s the case, then prepare yourself, and we will send you back!”

“Thank you, Sect Master!”

...

...

Only two days had passed since the incident.

When the entire sequence of events was laid out before Xue Qiutian.

Even Grand Elder Xuan Xiang of the Ice Fire Sect was invited to the Tianxuan Sect.

The atmosphere was terrifyingly silent.

Xuan Xiang glanced indifferently at Madam Mo Yu, who was sitting to the right of Sect Leader Li Huanxue.

This woman was precisely his Dao Companion from three hundred years ago, with whom he had advanced hand in hand.

“Xue Qiutian, why did you summon me here?”

Facing the Sect Master of the Tianxuan Sect, Grand Elder Xuan Xiang did not put the other party in his eyes at all.

Not only Xuan Xiang, but other Immortal Sects like the Lingjian Sect and Chun Nong Valley all scoffed at the Tianxuan Sect.

Because three hundred years ago.

This group of people from the Tianxuan Sect all came from their three respective factions, arriving to jointly guard the Nine Underworld Corpse Kui Sect’s Sect and the Corpse King.

For some unknown reason, these people actually broke away from their respective Sects, abandoning all their original emotions and resources, and formed their own faction.

After so many years of investigation.

The unified conclusion of the other three Immortal Sects was that they might have discovered some secret within the Nine Underworld Corpse Kui Sect.

That’s why they each defected from their Sects.

And this Xue Qiutian was merely an ordinary Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator back then.

After the establishment of the Tianxuan Sect, he was revered by everyone as the Sect Master and suddenly became a Golden Core Stage expert, making the other three Immortal Sects wary.

“It seems Grand Elder Xuan Xiang has quite a deep opinion of me!”

Xue Qiutian stroked his beard and smiled indifferently.

“However, for the sake of your former Dao Companion, Madam Mo Yu’s Face, would you please cooperate with my Tianxuan Sect?”

Their eyes met, and Madam Mo Yu immediately lowered her head in shame.

After all, back then, she was the one who betrayed her Sect and abandoned her husband first.

Three hundred years had passed in a flash, and things had long since changed.

“A few days ago, my Tianxuan Sect issued a Demon Extermination Order to the three Immortal Sects. Grand Elder Xuan Xiang should also know that my Inner Elder Jia Chengxin received a report of an evil Cultivator from the Blood Refinement Sect causing trouble within your Sect's Domain. With the intention of assisting your Sect and eliminating demons to protect the Dao, my Tianxuan Sect Disciples quickly went to provide support.”

“And the truth is, precisely because we arrived in time, dozens of your Sect’s Disciples fortunately survived.”

“But your Sect mistakenly believed that we went to seize Opportunity!”

Grand Elder Xuan Xiang snorted coldly: “Isn’t that so? When he left, how much ice fire marrow did this Jia Chengxin take? Do you think I don’t know?”

Upon hearing this, the other Elders in the main hall immediately raised their eyebrows, revealing meaningful expressions.

“However…”

Xue Qiutian changed the subject, “Just two days ago, the team of over four hundred led by Jia Chengxin, besides losing over a hundred people in the battle with the Blood Refinement Sect, the remaining over three hundred people all perished two days ago. The incident occurred within your Ice Fire Sect’s territory. Grand Elder Xuan Xiang, can you provide an explanation for this?”