Dong dong dong~ Dong dong dong.

The sound of knocking on the door arises.

“Who is it?”

Bai Lian pulls open the room door, at first only seeing a pair of eye whites.

She blinks her eyes, then from that whiteness struggles out. “Second Elder, what important business brings you here?”

“Can’t this old man come and greet the Holy Maiden?” The Second Elder smiles. The smile on his aged face should have been kind, but because only the eye whites remained, it appeared very sinister. “Holy Maiden’s cultivation has advanced greatly, truly a blessing for our White Bone Path.”

“Where. Elder, you are the white jade pillar holding up the sky for this sect, the purple gold beam framing the sea.”

“Ha ha ha. Not planning to let this old man come in and sit for a while?”

“This…” Bai Lian’s eyes showed difficulty. “After all, I am a girl, isn’t it inconvenient?”

“This old man watched the Holy Maiden grow up from a young age. You are like this old man’s daughter, what’s inconvenient?” The Second Elder said, then squeezed into the room.

Looking left and right a few times, he seemingly unintentionally asked, “Holy Maiden, why are you still wearing a night veil to cover yourself in your own room in the sect?”

Bai Lian blinked her eyes. “Born with a beautiful quality, I have to conceal the light and nurture obscurity.”

“Ha ha ha ha…” The Second Elder laughed, then the laughter suddenly stopped. “Ouyang has returned. I can smell his presence.”

“This is a good thing! It wasn’t in vain that we exhausted our efforts and sacrificed so many dark pieces to cover for him all the way. Why hasn’t the Great Elder appeared yet?”

“Who could guess his thoughts?”

“You all can’t guess, I know even less.”

“Is it that you don’t know, or don’t want to know?”

“There’s no need for me to know.” Bai Lian chuckled flirtatiously. “The sect’s important matters must still be decided by the elders. I will just quietly wait for news.”

The Second Elder looked at her deeply, then rose to walk outside.

Before stepping out of the room door, he suddenly paused. “Holy Maiden, why are you so good at talking today?”

Bai Lian giggled. “Look at what you’re saying. When haven’t I been good at talking? Even the occasional temper, wasn’t it all for the sect’s important matters?”

The Second Elder finally left, and the sense of pressure enveloping the room seemed to be cut off by the door.

…

“Perhaps this is the last probe.”

Bai Lian murmured softly.

She sat quietly for a while, confirming that no one else would come to disturb her. Only then did she put down an array plate, pull open the wardrobe, carry out the tightly closed Jiang Wang, and throw him onto the bed.

At this time, Jiang Wang was in a five-senses sealed state. Only like this could he avoid that pair of eyes that only had eye whites.

Bai Lian pinched a formula and untied the five-senses seal.

Jiang Wang suddenly got up, looked at Bai Lian, and pressed his sword without speaking.

Although he had always been in a five-senses sealed state and couldn’t hear Bai Lian and the Second Elder’s dialogue, with his five senses empty and his heart quiet, he was repeatedly thinking about today’s matters.

“What you want to ask, just ask.” Bai Lian walked to the table edge and sat down directly.

“You saved me again.” Jiang Wang’s voice was a little difficult.

Bai Lian smiled. “What’s the trouble?”

“This is the White Bone Path’s old nest, and you are a member of the White Bone Path?” Jiang Wang asked.

“We are all people of the Dao Gate,” Bai Lian said.

Knowing that arguing with her about whether the White Bone Path belonged to the orthodox Dao Gate was fundamentally meaningless, Jiang Wang repeated, “I’m just asking you, are you a member of the White Bone Path?”

“Not me.” Bai Lian stretched out a jade finger and pointed at Jiang Wang. “It’s us.”

“What do you mean?”

“Originally, I didn’t want to tell you so quickly because your ‘metamorphosis’ isn’t complete yet.” Bai Lian sighed. “But since you appeared here today, you won’t give up without an answer, right?”

Jiang Wang didn’t answer her question, but asked, “So today Fang He Ling came to Niu Tou Mountain, is it a trap? Who is it targeting?”

“It’s an idle chess piece of the White Bone Messenger, not targeting anyone. It’s just that no matter who follows up Fang He Ling tonight, they must die here. Anyway, we will soon abandon this place. You and Ji Xing Si’s dark sentry just happened to meet.”

The White Bone Path will soon leave Niu Tou Mountain.

Jiang Wang keenly grasped this information, but he put it aside. He turned and asked, “What does metamorphosis mean? What do you mean by ‘you all’ and ‘we’?”

“The white bone lotus flower on your back, the fact that you suddenly mastered the flesh born soul return technique… These are not enough to make you associate?”

“You always understand me very well. These might all be your arrangements. The white bone lotus flower could have been tattooed on when I was unconscious, and it’s also possible that you used some method to pass the flesh born soul return technique to me… It’s impossible for me to be related to the White Bone Path!”

“Modifying memory is a divine ability that I don’t have.” Bai Lian suddenly chuckled. “However, I have indeed always paid close attention to you, even when you were still a beggar…”

Jiang Wang was suddenly shocked!

To evade Fang Peng Ju’s pursuit, he transformed into a beggar and barely lived in Huan Zhen View. That was before he opened his pulse. Bai Lian was actually observing him from that time?

Bai Lian quickly explained, “Originally, you and that group of beggars settled in Huan Zhen View. It was under our guidance that you completed the selection.”

Her voice was faint. “Huan Zhen View is a very meaningful place, and it was also chosen by the honored god. As early as when Zuo Guang Lie died in battle, I was curious, so many beggars died, why did only you not die? Could it be just a coincidence?

Why did you return to the Dao Academy later, and your cultivation immediately progressed at a thousand miles a day?

Presumably, you also have some awareness?

After opening your pulse, your cultivation speed surpassed ordinary people.

Most importantly, you can devour the White Bone Path seed, you can perfectly adapt to White Bone Path secret laws, you know the flesh born soul return technique! You are not ordinary, you are a child of the White Bone Path!”

Bai Lian finally said, “Later I only understood why you appeared in Huan Zhen View; it was precisely the arrangement of the honored god.”

“No, that’s not right!” Jiang Wang shook his head. He believed his cultivation came from the Tai Xu Illusion Realm and was fundamentally unrelated to being a child of the White Bone Path. But the Tai Xu Illusion Realm was his biggest secret now and couldn’t be used to argue.

“Just afraid you say it’s not right with your mouth, yet cry in pain and shed tears in your heart.”

“What Path child!” Jiang Wang took a step back. “I said, I can’t forgive the White Bone Path’s actions. I also can’t be in the same stream of filth as you. We are not on the same path!”

“That’s because you haven’t seen the truth of this world clearly, haven’t thoroughly wiped away your hypocrisy, and haven’t found your true self.”

“I know very well who I am, I don’t need you to remind me.” Jiang Wang controlled his mind as much as possible, letting himself think calmly.

“What did you say about the White Bone Path seed?” he asked.

“This is a very precious thing, I only have one. It can absorb the parasitized person’s nutrients to grow and finally perfectly control the parasitized person. But unexpectedly, you devoured it… So you see, the seed naturally can’t take effect on a Path child!”

Jiang Wang looked at her coldly. “You tried to parasitize me?”

Bai Lian’s eyes rarely showed some apology. “At that time, we weren’t familiar yet…”

“We’re still not familiar now, you make me very strange!” Jiang Wang said coldly. “No need to say more! I absolutely don’t believe I am some White Bone Path child. Even if it were true, I would absolutely not be in the same stream of filth as you group of human-faced beasts!”

The word “even,” although expressing determination, still indicated a wavering.

Bai Lian didn’t rush to make an issue of this point, but counter-asked, “Is it raising fierce beasts and not caring about the lives of common people that counts as human-faced beasts? Or is it extracting the Dao pulse of the water race to refine open-pulse pills that counts as human-faced beasts?”

“Don’t think about shaking my Dao heart with words!” Jiang Wang’s voice was firm, as if insufficient to resist the pressure he bore without it.

He tried to smooth his breath and verify his determination. “Bai Lian, since our paths are different, then let’s part ways. I said, my life was saved by you, you can take it back now.”

Bai Lian’s eyes were very beautiful, seeming angry and resentful, full of autumn waves. She just used that pair of eyes to gaze at Jiang Wang.

“How could I be willing to kill you?” She softened her voice and said softly, “However, as long as you cooperate, I can wipe away your memory of tonight. Just pretend everything didn’t happen. Wait until you thoroughly awaken, then you will remember tonight’s matters.”

“Burying one’s head in the sand?”

“No, it’s just that the time hasn’t arrived yet.”

Bai Lian rose to lean in. Before Jiang Wang could react, she pressed him onto the bed and sat him down firmly.

“Look into my eyes.” She said. “I don’t have the divine ability to manipulate memory. I just use a secret technique to temporarily seal this small segment of memory. So you must open your body and mind and fully cooperate. If there’s an accident, at best your spirit will be deranged, at worst your soul will scatter.”

Jiang Wang knew clearly in his heart that this was already the best choice.

Tonight he mistakenly entered Niu Tou Mountain and stepped into a den of thieves. He should have ended up dead.

Bai Lian’s various covers had already saved him one life. But no matter how they discussed it, it was impossible for her to let him bring the White Bone Path’s secrets back to Feng Lin City.

And he would rather die than be in the same stream of filth as the White Bone Path.

Now he could temporarily delay facing the choice again without needing to die.

Jiang Wang thoroughly opened his mind, letting his consciousness be submerged by countless lotus petals.

He felt a kind of warmth and inclusiveness, and attachment.

Then, in this boundless sea of lotus petals, he saw a lotus bud drifting towards him.

It grew taller and taller, until it was parallel with Jiang Wang’s line of sight.

Then the lotus flower bloomed. The center of the bloom was not flower stamens, nor did it bear lotus seeds.

But… a black candle!

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