Knock, knock, knock.

The sound of knocking on the door.

“Who is it?”

Bai Lian opened the door, first only seeing the whites of eyes.

She blinked, and then peered out from that whiteness. “What brings the Second Elder here?”

“Can’t I come to greet the Holy Maiden if I have nothing else to do?” The Second Elder smiled, his old face with a smile that should have been kind, but because his eyes only had whites left, it looked very sinister. “The Holy Maiden’s cultivation has improved a lot, it is truly a blessing for our White Bone Dao.”

“You flatter me. Elder, you are the White Jade Pillar supporting the sky, the Purple Golden Beam holding the sea for our sect.”

“Hahaha. Aren’t you going to invite me in for a sit?”

“This…” Bai Lian’s eyes showed difficulty: “After all, I’m just a girl, it’s not convenient, right?”

“I’ve watched the Holy Maiden grow up since she was little, you’re like my daughter, what’s inconvenient?” As the Second Elder spoke, he squeezed into the room.

He looked around a few times, seemingly unintentionally asking: “Why is the Holy Maiden still wearing a night veil in her own room in the sect?”

Bai Lian blinked: “Naturally beautiful, I have to keep a low profile.”

“Hahahaha…” The Second Elder laughed loudly, but the laughter suddenly stopped: “Ouyang is back, I can smell his scent.”

“That’s a good thing! It’s not in vain that we put so much effort and sacrificed so many hidden agents to cover for him all the way. Why hasn’t the Grand Elder shown himself yet?”

“Who can guess his thoughts?”

“If you can’t guess, I know even less.”

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

“I don’t need to know.” Bai Lian said charmingly: “The elders still have to make the decisions for the sect’s major affairs. I’ll just wait for news.”

The Second Elder took a deep look at her, then got up and walked out.

Before stepping out of the door, he suddenly stopped: “Why is the Holy Maiden so agreeable today?”

Bai Lian chuckled: “Look at what you’re saying. When have I ever been disagreeable? Even if I occasionally have a temper, isn’t it all for the sect’s major affairs?”

The Second Elder finally left, and the oppressive feeling that enveloped the room seemed to be cut off by the door.

…

“Perhaps this is the final test.”

Bai Lian murmured softly.

She sat quietly for a while, confirming that no one would come to disturb her again. Only then did she put down a formation disc, opened the wardrobe, and dragged out Jiang Wang, who had his eyes tightly closed, and threw him on the bed.

At this time, Jiang Wang was under a five-sense seal, only in this way could he avoid the eyes that only had whites left.

Bai Lian made a hand seal and released the five-sense seal.

Jiang Wang suddenly got up, looked at Bai Lian, and held his sword silently.

Although he had been in a state of five-sense sealing, unable to hear the conversation between Bai Lian and the Second Elder, he emptied his five senses, calmed down, and repeatedly thought about what happened today.

“Ask whatever you want to ask.” Bai Lian walked to the table and sat down by herself.

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

Bai Lian smiled: “It’s nothing to mention.”

“This is the White Bone Dao’s lair, are you a member of the White Bone Dao?” Jiang Wang asked.

“We are all people of the Daoist sect.” Bai Lian said.

Knowing that arguing with her about whether the White Bone Dao belonged to the Daoist orthodoxy was meaningless, Jiang Wang repeated: “I only ask you, are you a member of the White Bone Dao?”

“Not I.” Bai Lian stretched out her jade finger and pointed at Jiang Wang: “It’s us.”

“What do you mean?”

“I didn’t want to tell you so soon, because your ‘transformation’ hasn’t been completed yet.” Bai Lian sighed and asked: “But since you appeared here today, you won’t let it go without getting an answer, right?”

Jiang Wang did not answer her question, but asked: “So Fang Heling coming to Niu’tou Mountain today was a trap? Targeted at whom?”

“A chess piece of the White Bone Envoy, not targeting anyone. It’s just that whoever follows Fang Heling tonight will die here. Anyway, we’re about to abandon this place. You and the secret agent of the Correctional Department just happened to be there.”

The White Bone Dao would soon leave Niu’tou Mountain.

Jiang Wang keenly grasped this information, but he set it aside. He turned to ask: “What does transformation mean? What do you mean by you and us?”

“The White Bone Lotus on your back, the Flesh-Born Soul Return technique you suddenly mastered… Aren’t these enough for you to associate?”

“You have always known me very well, these may all be your arrangements. The White Bone Lotus may have been tattooed on me when I was unconscious, and the Flesh-Born Soul Return technique may have been passed on to me by you using some method… It’s impossible for me to be related to the White Bone Dao!”

“I don’t have the supernatural power to modify memories.” Bai Lian suddenly laughed: “But indeed, I have always been very concerned about you, when you were still a beggar…”

Jiang Wang was shocked!

In order to escape Fang Pengju’s pursuit, he disguised himself as a beggar and survived in Huanzhen Guan, which was before he had even opened his meridians. Bai Lian had been observing him since then?

Bai Lian quickly explained: “In the beginning, your group of beggars settled in Huanzhen Guan, which was a choice completed under our guidance.”

Her voice was faint: “Huanzhen Guan is a very meaningful place, and it is also a place chosen by the Honored God. As early as the time when Zuo Guanglie died in battle, I was curious, so many beggars died, why didn’t you die alone? Is it just a coincidence?

Why did you immediately make rapid progress in cultivation after you returned to the Daoist academy?

You must have noticed it too, right?

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

Most importantly, you can devour the White Bone Dao Seed, you can perfectly adapt to the White Bone Dao secret techniques, you know the Flesh-Born Soul Return technique! You are not ordinary, you are the White Bone Dao Child!”

Bai Lian finally said: “Later I realized that the reason you appeared in Huanzhen Guan was the arrangement of the Honored God.”

“No, that’s not right!” Jiang Wang shook his head. He believed that his cultivation came from the Illusionary Realm of Taixu, and had nothing to do with any White Bone Dao Child. But the Illusionary Realm of Taixu was his biggest secret now, and he couldn’t use it to argue.

“I’m just afraid that you say it’s not right, but you’re crying bitterly in your heart.”

“What Dao Child!” Jiang Wang took a step back: “I said, I can’t forgive what the White Bone Dao has done. And I can’t collude with you, we are not on the same path!”

“That’s because you haven’t seen the truth of this world, haven’t completely erased your hypocrisy, and haven’t found your true self.”

“I understand who I am, I don’t need you to remind me.” Jiang Wang tried his best to control his emotions, so that he could calm down and think.

“What is the White Bone Dao Seed you mentioned?” He asked.

“This is a very precious thing, and I only have one. It can absorb the nutrients of the host to grow, and finally perfectly control the host. But I didn’t expect it to be devoured by you… So you see, the Dao Seed certainly cannot be effective on the Dao Child!”

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

Rarely, Bai Lian’s eyes showed some apology: “At that time, we were not familiar…”

“We are not familiar now either, you make me feel very strange!” Jiang Wang said coldly: “Don’t say any more! I will never believe that I am any White Bone Dao Child, even if I am, I will never collude with you guys who are beasts in human clothing!”

An “even if”, although expressing determination, showed wavering.

Bai Lian was not in a hurry to make an issue of this, but asked: “Is it raising fierce beasts and disregarding the lives of the people who are considered beasts in human clothing? Or is it extracting the veins of the water tribe to refine the Meridian-Opening Pills that is considered beasts in human clothing?”

“Don’t try to shake my Dao heart with words!” Jiang Wang’s voice was firm, as if he could not resist the pressure he was under without doing so.

He tried to calm his breathing and confirm his determination: “Bai Lian, since the 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 to be angry and resentful, with amorous feelings, and she used those eyes to stare at Jiang Wang.

“How can I bear to kill you?” She softened her voice and said softly: “However, as long as you cooperate, I can erase your memory of tonight. Just pretend that nothing happened. You will remember tonight’s events when you are completely awakened.”

“Are you burying your head in the sand?”

“No, it’s just that the time is not right.”

Bai Lian got up and probed in, and before Jiang Wang could react, she pressed him down on the bed to sit down.

“Look into my eyes.” She said: “I don’t have the supernatural power to manipulate memories. I just use secret techniques to temporarily seal this small part of memory, so you must relax your body and mind and fully cooperate. Once an accident occurs, it will be mild mental disorder, and severe soul annihilation.”

Jiang Wang knew very well that this was already the best choice.

Tonight, he mistakenly entered Niu’tou Mountain and stepped into the bandit’s nest, and it should have ended with his death.

Bai Lian’s various cover-ups had already saved his life. But in any case, it was impossible for him to take the secrets of the White Bone Dao back to Fenglin City.

And he would rather die than collude with the White Bone Dao.

Now he could postpone the choice he had to face without having to die.

Jiang Wang completely opened his mind and let his consciousness be submerged by countless lotus petals.

He felt a kind of warmth and tolerance, and nostalgia.

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

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

Then the lotus bloomed, and the center of the bloom was not a pistil, nor did it bear lotus seeds.

But… a black candle!

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