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Chapter 766: Chapter 3 Make Your Choice

Traitor.

Hateful, despicable traitor!

Ling Yunpo had never despised the existence of traitors more than he did at this moment.

What Netherworld Sect? And Shushan, to think that a peak master was actually a spy for the Hell Path, even daring to attempt to kill a promising young cultivator like me, a Golden Core True Person. I’m afraid Shushan is… done for!

“Is there a possibility that he wasn’t trying to kill you, but instead trying to snatch your sword?” Kunlun Mirror reminded him.

“What’s the difference?” Ling Yunpo retorted, “If he steals my sword, won’t he just kill me as well?”

However, after being prompted by Kunlun Mirror, Ling Yunpo immediately realized:

Wait a minute, my Green Duckweed Sword… has Qing Ping already ascended through Feather Transformation? Then what exactly is my Green Duckweed Sword?

“Qing Ping, let me ask you something,” Ling Yunpo took out the Green Duckweed Sword from inside his body and inquired.

The Green Duckweed Sword kept silent, evidently pretending to be dead.

“I didn’t quite understand what Elder Ming Hua said earlier,” Ling Yunpo continued, “You’re not my Qing Ping, then what sword could you be? Ru Ping?”

“Who is Ru Ping?” Due to the anachronism of the joke, even the Green Duckweed Sword couldn’t hold back, and asked out of curiosity.

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“Ru Ping is…” Ling Yunpo pondered for a moment, then said, “How about this, you tell me who you really are, and I’ll tell you who Ru Ping is.”

“Sword Master, instead of trying to figure out who I am, you should be thinking about how to save your Senior Sister An,” the Green Duckweed Sword said in a drawn-out voice, calmly stating, “After all, if Elder Ming Hua dares to make a move against you within Shushan, it must be because he’s certain that An Zhisu won’t come to save you, or go to the Jade Capital Sect Leader to ask for help on your behalf, right?”

That’s right! The primary task now is to find out what happened to Senior Sister An!

Ling Yunpo could not continue to press the matter, so he quickly left Shushan territory and found a nearby market, where he concealed his identity and started gathering information.

It didn’t take long for him to hear even more tragic news:

Qing Heng True Person is suspected of killing a fellow disciple, Sima Changyan, and is currently being hunted with a bounty by Shushan. Anyone who captures him alive and takes him back to Shushan will be rewarded handsomely.

The use of “suspected” and “want alive,” rather than “confirmed” and “kill on sight,” indicates that the Shushan higher-ups do not fully believe Elder Ming Hua’s frame-up, and thus still wish to capture Qing Heng True Person to uncover the truth.

But if Elder Ming Hua could kill Sima Changyan to frame him, he might well have other contingencies in place. If he were to return to Shushan now, he’d most likely be walking into a trap and sitting duck.

He needed to come up with a plan.

As Ling Yunpo was thinking, he noticed quite a few cultivators of unknown affiliation in the market.

Were they Shushan cultivators here to capture me? No, according to the scan results, some practiced cultivation techniques entirely different from Shushan’s, likely attracted by the bounty.

He utilized Ah Jing’s Illusion Technique, cleverly slipping away from the search without anyone being the wiser to his presence.

The Sword Light fled southward, heading straight into the Southern Border territory. During this season, the Southern Border was filled with peach blossom miasma, a place where even high-rank cultivators struggled to survive.

But Ling Yunpo had mastered the Innate Chaotic Great Five Elements Divine Light. At this point, manipulating the Five Elements Transformation was as easy as breathing. He immediately activated the profound technique to dissolve all the peach blossom miasma around him, creating a safe passage.

Once he hid deep within the miasma of the Southern Border, Ling Yunpo finally let out a sigh of relief.

Shushan cultivators wouldn’t be able to pursue him here, but what should he do next?

Not hearing any message from Senior Sister An was unsettling.

But just as the Green Duckweed Sword had said, since Elder Ming Hua dared to attack me, Senior Sister An’s situation was probably not much better.

Wait a second, they wouldn’t be planning to declare Senior Sister An guilty and then execute her publicly, would they?

If that were the case, it would explain why Wei Dongliu, from the future timeline, would hear the news in the Demon Cult’s main base — because Shushan wanted to use the news of executing Senior Sister An to lure me back to the sect!

Damn, how could I possibly be fooled!

“Is that so?” The Kunlun Mirror suddenly asked, “But if you don’t return, and they do execute An Zhisu, won’t you live with lifelong regret?”

“Senior Sister An is a Second Grade Golden Core,” replied Ling Yunpo. “Unless Long Eyebrow Immortal is possessed by a Heavenly Demon, how could he possibly execute a Second Grade Golden Core?”

“So, you’re absolutely certain that even if you don’t go back, your Senior Sister will be perfectly fine?” asked the Kunlun Mirror, surprised.

Ling Yunpo fell silent.

The question posed by the Kunlun Mirror was, in fact, his deepest concern:

Logically speaking, Shushan would not destroy its own defenses by executing a Second Grade Golden Core. It would take how many millennia to witness the rise of a Second Grade Golden Core!

But the developments of the situation were too bizarre. First, Senior Sister An was taken away for no apparent reason, then Elder Ming Hua, the Netherworld Sect traitor within, rashly self-destructed; and then he was framed and falsely accused, leading to being wanted and hunted down by Shushan…

Even if Senior Sister An was safe and sound, or if Elder Ming Hua, the traitor, didn’t exist, I would have gone straight to the Jade Capital Sect Leader and revealed my deepest thoughts.

But what if… Considering the two points mentioned above, what if Long Eyebrow Immortal gets deceived by an insider from the Hell Path and really wants to kill our Qingluo Peak lineage? What then?

Senior Sister An is now in imprisonment, and the only one who can make a decision is me!

I must be cautious! If I lightly choose to return to the Sect and fall into a death trap, the consequences would be irreversible!

Ling Yunpo thought long and hard but felt his scalp tingling, unable to organize his thoughts clearly.

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Every so often, Ling Yunpo would leave the miasma cover of the Southern Border to go out to the market and gather information.

This new piece of information was expected.

Jiao Xiao True Person, for the crime of killing a fellow sect member without permission, was sentenced to a public interrogation at the Emei Golden Summit’s Sky Extremity Square one month later.

Killing a fellow sect member, if it happened in other Sects, would typically warrant a life-for-a-life punishment, but within Shushan, due to intense internal competition and frequent private duels, the outcome is less certain.

It might be a death sentence or imprisonment for a few hundred years, or even more likely, they had no intention to convict at all but merely wanted to lure me back!

With such a petty trick, would I fall for it? I bet that you won’t do anything to Senior Sister An!

“By the way, haven’t you decided yet?” The Kunlun Mirror asked out loud, “If you’re convinced this is a ploy to lure you back, then perhaps it’s best to temporarily put aside your identity as Ling Yunpo of Shushan.”

“As long as the suspicion on you remains uncleared, it’s impossible for you to obtain the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment from Long Eyebrow Immortal. You might as well focus on other identities for now.”

“What do you mean by not having decided? I’m merely planning to proceed with caution,” Ling Yunpo still stubbornly insisted.

The Kunlun Mirror sighed without a word, knowing that Ling Yunpo’s so-called caution was actually still indecision.

If An Zhisu is indeed sentenced to death and executed publicly, what should be done? To prevent this, Ling Yunpo would definitely have to go back and save her.

But how to save her? Battle the entire Shushan Shangqing Faction, and face the Dual Polarity Dust Sword Formation head-on?

Once back, he would be like a fish on a chopping board, a reality laid bare.

“Sigh,” the Kunlun Mirror sighed, “If you ask me, it might be better not to go back at all.”

“Once you expose yourself in front of the whole Shushan, I won’t be able to save you and An Zhisu together, and even if I were to help you flee, there’s a risk of my powers being exposed to the public.”

“Besides, your relationship with An Zhisu was just for show, and your real goal is still to collect the fragments of the Heaven-Mending Stone, right?”

Ling Yunpo fell silent.

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