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Soon, Lin Qi knew what kind of favor Qingyun Zhenjun had asked of the city lord of Mingcheng.

In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, the Lord Mayor of Drunken City specially held a trial for the case of stealing a Drunken Beast in the most bustling square of Drunken City.

He even specially invited several Yuan Ying True Lords from Los Angeles to take charge, heavily guarded the city, and imposed a curfew on the entire city.

Thousands of people came to watch the trial.

The crowd was bustling, a spectacular sight.

Qingyun Zhenjun was also invited to be one of the presiding True Lords for this trial. Lin Qi and Luo Ci stood quietly behind her, their eyes scanning the surroundings, trying to find Yuan Xi's whereabouts.

The next second, Luo Ci saw Yuan Xi Shijie's figure and excitedly tugged at Lin Qi's sleeve.

"Big Sister!"

Lin Qi stared intently and saw Yuan Xi leading people out with Gu Ming.

She lowered her head in surprise and exclaimed, "Master?!"

Qing Yun Zhenjun raised his hand, motioning for them to be quiet and watch.

As the judge read out Gu Ming's crimes one by one, the onlookers wore expressions of anger and hatred, wishing they could kill him with their eyes.

"Kill her!"

Nobody knows who shouted.

A constant chorus of voices cried out, “Kill her! Kill her!”

"Revenge must be taken for the three years of dead souls!"

The mask of loneliness shattered, and on the beautiful face were several deep scars that could be seen to the bone.

Her enchanting eyes were full of coldness.

Even knowing her inevitable end was death, there wasn't much fear in her eyes.

After she signed the confession, she was escorted to sign it.

Seeing the Soul Binding Curse above, she suddenly burst into laughter.

Yuan Xi had a sword hanging from her waist and looked at her with a calm expression, "Why are you laughing?"

Gulu stared at them, "Laughing at you bunch of trash!"

Yuan Xi was not angered by her. He calmly said, "You are indeed very capable. Using the stolen wine beast as a gimmick, cultivating demonic cultivator forces in Ming City, and brutally killing ordinary people while concealing it for three years."

But today, you can't escape death.

"But I'm merely imprisoned in the afterlife, do you think I fear this?!"

"Lone Life let out a cold laugh. 'Do you know why I'm called Lone Life?'

Yuanxi: "I wish to hear the good news."

Suddenly, a smile lit up Gu Ming's face, like a captivating demoness blooming on the other shore. Even the scars on her face seemed to come alive.

“I was born and killed my parents. A Taoist master passed by and said that I was born with a solitary evil spirit, fulfilling all five calamities and three deficiencies. My life would be full of misery and hardship until death, unable to be liberated.”

Yuanxi's mouth was slightly open, not knowing what to say.

"Go against the odds and live recklessly," Gu Ming laughed arrogantly, "I don't believe in fate. Although I haven't lived for five years, I have already experienced all the hardships in this world."

When I was five, I was tested and found to have no spiritual roots. I was kidnapped and used as a furnace tripod. To survive, my face was completely ruined.

From that day on, I changed my name to Gu Ming!

Gulu was disdainful of the pity in other people's eyes. She held her chin high with pride.

"That fortune teller said I was born to die young, not living past ten years old. In the end, I lived to be two hundred!"

The old geezer from Xuan Tian Sect said I had no spiritual affinity and was destined to never cultivate, but here I am, having broken through to the Golden Core stage smoothly!

"Everything I've enjoyed in my lifetime is something that ordinary mortals and cultivators couldn't even begin to compare to!"

"Born a lonely soul? Widowed and isolated?!"

"I got everything I wanted, isn't that enough?!"

"The lone wolf laughed wildly, 'What's life but birth and death? I've lived my life freely and wantonly, why should I fear a little hardship after death?!"

Yuanxi stood tall and looked down at her, his lowered eyes full of meaning.

She murmured, "So this is what he's been after all along... wanting everything and getting it by any means necessary."

She seemed to have some understanding, yet also a sense of confusion.

The execution order of the city lord of Mingcheng was issued, and the demons hidden in the crowd began to stir.

With a sound, countless strands of spiritual energy shot out.

Both sides simultaneously lifted the curtain on this battle.

Yuan Xi stood in the center of the square and drew her long sword from her waist with lightning speed.

A sword flashed, and blood splattered on the gravel-covered ground.

His lone, crazed smile was captured, his head heavy as it bowed towards the ground.

Her soul wanted to flee, Yuan Xi grasped the void with one hand, only to hear Gu Ming let out a scream of agony.

Even if my hands are stained with blood, I will ensure that countless ordinary cultivators are not bound by their innate talent and have the chance to defy fate!

"I have no regrets in this life!"

In the fateful painting, a ghastly confession scroll burst forth with four eerie ghostly chains.

The ghost chain pierced her limbs, dragging her soul into the scroll world.

The Soul-Locking Curse takes effect now!

The lonely soul will be locked within the scroll for a hundred years, punished by the ghost messengers of the netherworld. After enduring countless tortures, its spirit will eventually dissipate.

This is the cruellest and most severe punishment in the city's legal code.

Yuanxi expressionlessly put away the scroll, ignoring the surrounding battle, and said softly, "Against Heaven's decree?"

"If you believe the old Taoist's words, then that is your fate. If you don't believe it, then you are not!"

The solitary soul before the gate of hell's smile faltered, his expression frozen in shock.

Before she could think further, she was swallowed into the demon realm, and the scroll completely closed.

Yuan Xi presented the scroll to the Lord of Mingcheng, and said solemnly: "Here is the 'Book of Punishment for a Heretic' written by one of the twelve High Priests of Tiansaji Sect, Yuan Xi has fulfilled his duty!"

The Lord of Ming City laughed heartily, saying, "Such a formidable young man! Such a formidable young man!"

Even the wicked cultivators who wreaked havoc all around couldn't spoil his good mood.

Yuan Xi walked up to Qing Yun Zhenjun, before she could even speak, she saw Qing Yun Zhenjun smiling warmly, his eyes full of affection.

"How is it, having killed Gu Ming with your own hands? Has that feeling of resentment in your heart lessened at all?"

Yuan Xi's smile gradually faded, her eyes filled with a layer of water light, she couldn't help but step closer to Qing Yun Zhenjun, "Master..."

Qing Yun Zhenjun gently held her shoulders, "You're still a child, don't live your life so repressed."

"Just now Xiao Qi asked me, why must I let you personally kill Gu Ming."

Yuan Xi's eyes welled up with tears. She quickly lowered her head, trying to suppress that feeling.

If she were still as confused as Lin Qi at the moment she received the news, then in the instant she personally chopped off the lone life's head, she already understood Qing Yun Zhenjun's good intentions.

With every swing of the blade, she didn't just take lives; she also severed a piece of her own heart that was heavy with vengeance.

Qing Yun Zhenjun patted her on the back affectionately: "As a master, I think the best way to solve hatred is to kill the enemy with your own hands."

"So-called forgetting hate over time is nothing but numb the mind and body through countless self-harm, then reconcile with oneself."

Once a wound has healed completely, it is called release.

"My poor student, Xiaoxi, she shouldn't have to suffer like this…"

"Master!" Hearing Xiaoxi's address, Yuanshi's tears flowed from his eyes.

She could no longer hold back, and she threw herself into Qingyun Zhenjun's arms.

It wasn't until this moment that Lin Qi realized that Yuan Xi, her senior sister, was just a twelve-year-old girl.

Qingyun True Lord gently caressed her head and said softly, "Since you can't kill Yuanwang now, first kill the evil cultivators of Tianjisong to vent your anger. In the future, Tianjisong's twelve priests, Yuanwang... you will one by one kill them all. One day, you will no longer be affected by this old grudge."

"As your teacher, I hope you can live a good life for yourself!"

Lin Qi's eyes were slightly wet, she grasped Yuan Xi's senior sister's sleeve and said resolutely: "Senior sister, I will kill all those beasts from Tianji Sect with you!"

Luo Ci wiped away a tear and also raised her chin, saying, “Senior Sister, I’ll help you too!”

"From today onwards, I Luoci and Tianjizong will be enemies forever, never seeing eye to eye!"