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Lava Immortal Palace, Main Hall.

The Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit, abandoning its usual miniature form, once again became colossal!

It roared skyward, its dragon horns almost touching the hall’s ceiling.

It was enraged, it had exploded!

“Cannot, absolutely cannot let Ning Xiaohui leave alive!”

“Absolutely not!!”

The Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit had plotted and prepared for so many years, paying countless painful prices, to weaken the Lava Immortal Palace step by step.

“I can only rely on myself!!”

“I—the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit, would rather die than be bound again.”

“I want freedom, freedom!”

It roared to the heavens, unwilling to accept defeat, resolved to sacrifice itself in a desperate gamble.

However, it was restrained by the Venerables of the Three Sects, even though they had long since perished. Its authority was insufficient to directly kill Ning Xiaohui.

Ning Zhuo was also unreliable!

Cornered, the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit could only resort to its old trick, borrowing the power of the Blazing Flame Demonic Beasts.

Just as it had intentionally left behind the Mechanical Demonic Generals in the past.

The demonic beasts began a full-scale, frenzied assault.

The Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit manipulated the defensive forces, deliberately reducing the magical power supporting the light barrier.

The golden orb barrier immediately weakened to sixty percent.

Crack crack crack…

The attacks of the demonic beasts rapidly caused cracks to appear on the surface of the spherical light barrier.

And this time, the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit, pushed to the brink, grew ruthless. Instead of increasing the flow of magical power as before, it diverted crucial magical energy to other irrelevant mechanical constructs.

With a muffled bang, a large hole was torn in the spherical light barrier.

In the Main Hall.

“I’ve played the tortoise for so long, who in this world knows that in my past life, I was a fire-breathing flood dragon?!”

The Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit’s eyes shone like the scorching sun, enduring the lashings of the fire whips, yet continuing to manipulate the situation.

Numerous mechanical creations flew into the sky, colliding and battling the Blazing Flame Demonic Beasts.

Under the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit’s command, the mechanical creations intentionally herded the demonic beasts towards the Historical Records Pavilion.

“What is that sound?!” Ning Xiaohui felt something was amiss the moment she heard the booming explosion.

The next moment, she realized something, her entire face turning deathly pale.

And when she opened the door of the Historical Records Pavilion and saw the surging Blazing Flame Demonic Beasts surrounding the area from all directions, with even a large number of beasts continuously descending from the sky, she was utterly stunned.

Intense fear enveloped her entire body.

It was Yang Chanyu!

“Don’t you dare!” In this critical moment, Zhu Zhen appeared, not only blocking Yang Chanyu’s attack but also launching a counterattack.

Yang Chanyu was startled.

She hadn’t expected someone else to be hidden nearby.

Zhu Zhen was a member of the Royal Family of Nandou, a powerful Golden Core cultivator specially dispatched to continuously gather intelligence from other nations.

Invisibility and concealment were among his most practiced skills!

As soon as Yang Chanyu blocked Zhu Zhen’s counterattack, several Golden Core figures surrounded her.

They were the Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou, Zheng, and Ning families!

“The fish has taken the bait, hahahaha!”

“It’s you again, Yang Chanyu!”

“Unfettered Gate… The Golden Core melee earlier, you were the ones who started it, weren’t you?”

The Golden Core cultivators from the three families gnashed their teeth, unleashing their magical artifacts, attacking in unison.

Yang Chanyu’s heart sank heavily, and she could only continuously retreat.

But her attempt to conceal herself failed.

Zhu Zhen pursued closely behind her: “Yang Chanyu, you’ve been hit by my spell and will be marked for an hour. Surrender, you cannot escape!”

Ning Xiaohui’s pupils constricted, trembling with fright.

Only then did she realize that she had just brushed against the edge of death. If Zhu Zhen hadn’t intervened, she would already be dead at Yang Chanyu’s hands.

Ning Xiaohui watched the Golden Core cultivators battle in the air, slaughtering the Blazing Flame Demonic Beasts within the frenzy. She fully grasped her true predicament.

“I am the only one who entered the Historical Records Pavilion!”

“I hold all the evidence of the true culprit!!”

“The Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit wants to kill me!!!”

“Escape, I must escape quickly.”

Ning Xiaohui had examined the materials in the Historical Records Pavilion and was the most knowledgeable person on Fire Persimmon Mountain about the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit.

A large number of mechanical creations surged towards the vicinity of the Historical Records Pavilion.

Ning Xiaohui dared not trust these mechanical puppets at all, knowing they were dispatched by the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit.

To eliminate Ning Xiaohui, it had to rely on outsiders.

Originally, Ning Zhuo was the dagger in its plan to kill, but now that Ning Zhuo was absent, it surveyed the entire situation and immediately set its sights on Sun Lingtong.

“Sun Lingtong!” The next moment, the voice of the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit suddenly boomed in Sun Lingtong’s ears.

Sun Lingtong’s body trembled slightly.

“Act quickly!” the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit shouted.

Sun Lingtong stared in disbelief: “Who are you? Suddenly popping up to scare me, and you still want to deceive me?!”

Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit: …

Ning Xiaohui stumbled and staggered, finding a way to survive in the chaotic battlefield.

Two Foundation Establishment-level Blazing Flame Demonic Beasts, detecting fresh blood and flesh, charged towards Ning Xiaohui.

Bang bang.

Two muffled thuds, and these two Blazing Flame Demonic Beasts were blown apart mid-charge.

It turned out that a Golden Core cultivator from the Zhou family had intervened to protect Ning Xiaohui.

Ning Xiaohui quickly ran.

More Blazing Flame Demonic Beasts surrounded her.

Zheng Shuanggou tossed his Twin Hooks into the air.

The Twin Hooks flew into the sky, pouring out a large amount of Golden Core magical power, converging into a magical power clone of Zheng Shuanggou.

The magical power clone, wielding the Twin Hooks, landed beside Ning Xiaohui and slew the Blazing Flame Demonic Beasts.

Ning Xiaohui was saved once again.

“Did you discover anything in the Historical Records Pavilion?” the Twin Hooks clone asked.

Ning Xiaohui’s entire body shook, and she suddenly came to her senses: “That’s right! If I expose the truth now, the Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit and Ning Zhuo will be finished. They’ll be too busy protecting themselves to have any energy left to kill me…”

Thinking of this, Ning Xiaohui quickly shook her head and blurted out: “I had just started to examine it when this happened, I haven’t had a chance to look yet.”

The Twin Hooks clone nodded, not suspecting anything: “I’ll escort you out first.”

Ning Xiaohui: !!!!!

At this moment, she was incomparably shocked, incomparably terrified!

Those words just now were not what she wanted to say, but the reality was that she had said them.

“Why did I say that?”

“I clearly wanted to tell the truth, why can’t I control myself?!”

Ning Xiaohui desperately widened her eyes, looking at the Twin Hooks clone, wanting to ask for help.

But at this moment, a Golden Core-level Blazing Flame Demonic Beast charged over.

The Twin Hooks clone’s expression turned serious: “Run quickly, I’ll hold it off!”

Ning Xiaohui was only in the Qi Condensation realm, so the Twin Hooks clone had to maintain distance to prevent her from being caught in a Golden Core-level battle.

Watching the Twin Hooks clone about to leave, Ning Xiaohui quickly seized this last opportunity and shouted—

“Senior, please be extremely careful!”

The Twin Hooks clone was surprised for a moment, then laughed heartily: “Little girl, you be careful. This is just a magical power clone of mine.”

“No, this is not at all what I wanted to say!!” Ning Xiaohui screamed internally.

Fear!

An incredibly strong fear gripped her heart tightly.

Ning Xiaohui was almost suffocated by it.

“What is happening to me?”

“Why can’t I even say a single truthful word?”

“Dragon-Tortoise Fire Spirit, yes, it must be it!”

“This is its territory, it’s interfering with me, it wants to kill me!!”

Ning Xiaohui’s face was ashen, without a trace of blood.

The criminal puppet’s face was also very pale.

He sat listlessly in the prison cell, the lamplight faint, his face full of sorrow.

Suddenly, a secret door in the center of the stage opened, and the Black-Clothed Envoy puppet emerged slowly.

The lights on either side focused on the Black-Clothed Envoy puppet, further highlighting the darkness of the surrounding cells.

Low drumbeats accompanied the Black-Clothed Envoy puppet’s every step, making the audience below the stage feel a sense of darkness and pressure.

The criminal puppet stood up as if electrocuted, shouting: “I didn’t confess, I didn’t confess, I never said you were the real culprit!”

The Black-Clothed Envoy sang in a cold voice: “Do not worry, I have a good plan. As long as you confess to the crime, you can escape disaster.”

After singing this line, he explained in detail: “Commoner, do not be troubled, I am here to help you escape danger.”

“You only need to confess to Fang Qing’s crime, and I will ensure your safety!”

A gong strike, indicating the character’s shocked emotions.

The criminal puppet, frightened, stepped back and fell onto his seat.

He looked at the Black-Clothed Envoy, singing urgently: “Fang Qing is an upright official, how can I falsely accuse him? I am but a small commoner, how dare I act recklessly?”

“This fabricated charge, how can it be true?”

“Oh dear…”

The criminal puppet shook his head and waved his hands, turning slightly to face the audience, spreading his hands: “How could I be so despicable? How could I twist right and wrong, how could I deceive the people?”

The Envoy puppet sneered.

The sound of the jinghu suddenly became high-pitched.

The Black-Clothed Envoy sang: “What if he is an upright official? The common people are just a rabble.”

“A rabble, the easiest to manipulate. As long as there are many words, everyone will believe it.”

“What does the truth matter?”

“As long as we falsely accuse him, he is doomed!”

With this, the second act of the play “Fang Qing’s Vindication” concluded.

(End of this chapter)