Biyou Palace

The accusing cries of Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal and others, filled with both tears and voices, echoed throughout the hall.

Duobao Taoist's expression gradually turned somber.

He could discern that the crowd was not lying.

Fratricide among fellow disciples is a grave taboo in Jie Sect!

Anyone who violates this rule shall receive severe punishment!

He glanced at the Tongtian Hierarch, who was seated aloft on a cloud bed. The slight furrow of his brows and the unstable worlds in his eyes suggested he was calculating the Heavenly Mechanisms.

Clearly, this usually hands-off Saint could no longer remain idle and had to personally deduce the factual truth.

Duobao Taoist sighed inwardly, hesitated for a moment, but then signaled to the Water-Fire Child serving beside him with a glance, instructing him through the Primordial Spirit Transmission Method to invite the Golden Spirit Saint Mother.

After all, Yu Yuan was her disciple.

Seeing the Water-Fire Child depart, and guessing his intent, Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal promptly cried out:

"Yu Yuan schemed against his fellow disciples and now has put us all on the Investiture of the Gods, misusing public instruments for personal revenge, utterly unforgivable... I beg the Hierarch to administer justice on our behalf and severely punish this malefactor!"

"Administer justice?"

Tongtian Hierarch snorted slightly: "Fine, I shall administer justice!"

Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal and others were instantly stunned.

The anger implied in his tone seemed not directed at Yu Yuan, but rather at them.

Before they could understand the change in situation, the Tongtian Hierarch had already turned to Yu Yuan, who had been silent and bowing his head, and spoke in an unfriendly tone:

"When will you stop hiding them?"

Yu Yuan raised his head, reached out his hand to take out the Qiankun Ruyi Bag, opened the mouth of the bag, and as colorful mists and treasure light blossomed, seven Daoists appeared one by one in the great hall.

Their bodies were bent, as thin as sticks, with deep-set eyes, and their appearances were withered, looking as if their essence, qi, and spirit had been drained by a female demon.

"Lv Yue?"

"And Zhou Xin and the others..."

"They're all still alive?"

"How is this possible?"

"..."

Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal was dumbfounded.

However, he quickly recovered.

Even if Lv Yue and the others were not dead, given their appearance, they must have suffered inhuman torture and maltreatment, and using this point, they could still accuse Yu Yuan!

Thinking this way, Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal quickly said to Lv Yue: "During these days, was it Yu Yuan who imprisoned and tortured you? Now, in front of the Hierarch, speak out all that you have endured. The Hierarch will surely administer justice for us!"

However, to his surprise, Lv Yue and the others didn't even glance at him. They trembled and knelt down, looking at the Tongtian Hierarch and kowtowed:

"Reporting to the Hierarch, we are guilty! We have abused the name of Jie Sect for personal gains, abducted and confined many of the Human Race to test plague poison techniques, and also oppressed fellow disciples using the same plague poison techniques, seizing heavenly materials and earthly treasures...

Some time ago, under the instigation of Senior Long-ear, we set a trap to ambush Yu Yuan, only to be captured by him later.

Afterward, we did not repent and even used curse killing techniques on Yu Yuan...

All these wrongdoings were committed by the seven of us!

We know we cannot escape our sins, we dare not ask for the Hierarch's forgiveness, only that the Hierarch allows us into the Investiture of the Gods, to slightly contribute to the stability of the Three Realms and Six Paths!

Even if only as minor gods of incense, we would be grateful to the end!"

Hearing this, aside from Tongtian Hierarch and Yu Yuan, whose expressions remained unchanged, everyone else in the hall was wide-eyed.

Are they mad?

Isn't this the time to expose Yu Yuan?

Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal eyes reddened as he stared at Lv Yue, wishing he could berate him, then flay him alive.

Everyone is in the same boat, this sudden "confession," isn't this sinking him?

But his mind was also quick, he promptly cried out loud: "Reporting to the Hierarch! Lv Yue and the others must have been severely tortured by Yu Yuan, they dare not speak out directly, so they must resign themselves to fate...

But I have another witness, she is Yu Yuan's dual cultivation partner, she can prove..."

Before he could finish, he already sensed something was wrong.

It was through these emaciated Daoists, from the Nine-tailed Fox, that he got the confirmed news of "Yu Yuan killed Lv Yue and others," deciding to strike first and gather a group to expose...

But now Lv Yue and the others were alive, clearly either the Nine-tailed Fox was lying, or these skinny Daoists were!

Thinking this, his eyes could not help but flicker with panic.

Yu Yuan glanced at him, "Why not continue? Isn't there still a witness? Do you need me to bring her forward?"

Speaking thus, Yu Yuan turned towards the Tongtian Hierarch: "Currently, Elder Shi Ji is waiting outside Biyou Palace, I request the permission of our ancestor-hierarch to allow her to enter."

Tongtian Hierarch nodded slightly.

In just a moment, Shi Ji, dressed in a black Daoist robe, quickly entered, saluted, and then produced the Eight Diagrams Cloud Light Cloth in public, releasing the entwined emaciated Daoists.

Additionally, she also brought forth a crystal-clear treasure bead.

This treasure bead is known as the Image Retention Pearl, a common type of magical treasure in the Primordial.

Its main function is to record sounds and images; once activated, it can record all surrounding images and voices, which will not fade even over prolonged periods of time.

Just need to input mana once more, and the recorded images and sounds will reappear.

At this moment, Shi Ji invoked the Image Retention Pearl, and the palace instantly started replaying various scenes and sounds of Thin Daoist and others interacting with Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal, as well as conversations among Thin Daoist and his group, including their confessions.

Among them, there were words shocking to the ear.

For instance, at one time, the Thin Daoist exterminated an entire clan to seek a Furnace Tripod for Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal!

Or when Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal took fancy in a newly accepted Female Immortal, and how through use of drugs converted her into a Furnace Tripod, making her unable to bear the humiliation and end her life, diminishing like incense and jade.

Or how every few hundred years, Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal would host a No-Barrier Assembly on Ding Guang Island, inviting many disciples from the sect with similar interests to participate.

He perpetually reared thousands of Furnace Tripods on his Ding Guang Island, indulging in extreme debauchery!

There was also an instance where the Furnace Tripod Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal desired already had a partner, so he forced them to divorce through soft and hard measures. If they dared not obey, he would directly send someone to assassinate them when they went out!

...

One by one, heinous acts and malevolences were divulged, bloodily laid out on the table.

"It's false! All of this is false!"

"It's all fake!"

"You guys are conspiring to slander me!"

Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal's eyes were completely red, his face full of shock and panic.

He knelt on the ground, moving forward on his knees, resembling a disgusting flesh worm, crying out to the Sect Hierarch Tongtian:

"Sect Hierarch, have mercy…"

"I have served by your side for so many years and have never committed any major mistake!"

"Even if I am obsessively indulged in lust, it's all consensual... they approached me willingly... it really has nothing to do with me!"

"Really nothing to do with you?"

Sect Hierarch Tongtian spoke slowly and deliberately.

Every syllable he uttered struck Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal as if thunderbolts were hitting him.

After the six tones were spoken, Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal's pale golden Primordial Spirit began to fade, and he completely prostrated himself, as if a great mountain was pressing down on him.

The might of a Saint is formless and omnipresent, sometimes ethereal and sometimes as heavy as Divine Mountain.

At this moment, Sect Hierarch Tongtian was enraged, just a sliver of his might almost dispersed Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal's Primordial Spirit.

Alongside his anger, there was also a trace of self-reproach!

Although he did not wish to set strict rules and constraints for his disciples, he never expected to have nurtured such a venomous entity!

Especially since Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal was one of the Seven Attendant Immortals by his side!

As for the Yin Yang Dual Cultivation that Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal practiced, he was well aware of it and had even provided guidance when sought.

After all, it is an integral branch of the grand Yin Yang Dao, being an orthodox path of Immortal Cultivation.

However, he never anticipated that Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal would stray, turning an upright Dual Cultivation pathway into a vile Gathering and Replenishing Skill!

What's most important is that such a person frequently serving in Biyou Palace took the wrong path, secretly committing so many evils, and he as a Sect Hierarch did not notice it at all these years!

It was because he trusted Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal too much!

He never suspected the disciple serving by his side would perpetrate such venomous acts.

Although he hoped that his disciples would bloom into varied flowers, he never wished for these blooms to be fierce poisonous ones!

After all, what he cultivated and taught were the ways of Immortal Paths, not the Demon Path!

Moreover, due to previous conflicts between Dao and Demon, he has always deeply detested the Demon Path!

However, Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal's actions have been verging on the Demon Path!

"Have mercy…"

Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal lay prostrate on the ground, his pale golden Primordial Spirit flickering like a candle in the wind, frail and potentially extinguishing at any moment.

He lowly wailed, pleading with Sect Hierarch Tongtian for a chance to live.

Meanwhile, the Four Saints of Nine Dragons Island, Lv Yue, Zhou Xin, Thin Daoist, and nearly thirty other Jie Sect Immortals, were also all kneeling on the ground, beseeching Sect Hierarch Tongtian for life.

Although the main records in the Image Retention Pearl were Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal's evil deeds, they also involved many other immortal gods; most present were implicated!

"All your current disasters are the result of your own actions, blame nobody else!"

Sect Hierarch Tongtian sighed lightly, "Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal, Lv Yue, Wang Mo, and others have oppressed their fellow initiates, their sins are heavy... Temporarily suppress them under Nine Dragons Island!"

Saying this, he lightly waved his hand, and aside from Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal, the rest appeared in the deep sea under Nine Dragons Island, tightly sealed by an Upper Pure Immortal Talisman and unable to move even an inch.

And Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal has already been listed, naturally returning to the Investiture of the Gods.

With this group gone, the entire hall instantly brightened noticeably.

Yu Yuan frowned slightly, looking at Sect Hierarch Tongtian and said, "Is this the end of it?"

Sect Hierarch Tongtian glanced at him, and rather irritably said, "Enough... as you wish, send them all to the Investiture of the Gods."

Hearing this, Yu Yuan slightly relaxed.

He was afraid that Sect Hierarch Tongtian would soften his heart at the last minute, merely giving everyone a light punishment, hence he had preemptively sent Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal to the Investiture of the Gods.

Of course, if possible, he would prefer to utterly obliterate him.

However, doing so would contradict his own initial intentions.

Compared to punishing Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal, he was more eager to place this disgusting "decayed meat" right in front of Sect Hierarch Tongtian, for him to see and even personally discover the truth.

Only in this way could he deeply let him feel how rotten Jie Sect had become!

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