Chapter 120

Yang Lixuan.

This name had disappeared from the Wu Lin for thirty years. By the time Li Miao arrived in Great Shuo, he was already dead.

If not for Ji Tianrui, Li Miao had carefully read the Ming Cult's files, even flipping through the previous ones, he might not have been able to say this name today.

In this Wu Lin, the speed at which people and reputations disappear is very fast.

One year after death, gradually no one will talk about it. Ten years after death, the name will be forgotten.

Wu Lin reputations rely on word of mouth; very few people write them on paper or archive them. Yang Lixuan had been dead for thirty years; that Li Miao could know this name was already due to the convenience of being in the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Back to Yang Lixuan, this person was a very standard "Demonic Cult Leader."

He had never done a single good deed in his life; he was either exterminating a sect or on his way to exterminate one.

Even when he was using the latrine, he was thinking about whose sect he should exterminate that day.

The Mongols had a way of treating captives: kill those taller than a cart wheel. He also knew this trick, only he would first push the cart wheel over, lay it flat on the ground, and then compare the height.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard's way of exterminating a sect was to split an earthworm vertically. But if one fell into his hands, they would be "flower-cut."

If not for this, thirty years ago, he would not have provoked the five major sects—Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, Kunlun, and Kongtong—to besiege the Ming Cult's main altar and behead him. Nor would there have been the later event of Ji Tianrui carrying the five major sects and succeeding as the Ming Cult leader.

During the previous trip to the Miao King's Tomb, Li Miao already had some guesses about Ji Tianrui's identity.

This Yang Yueze, as a descendant of the person involved in Ji Tianrui's emergence, might just know Ji Tianrui's origins.

As soon as Li Miao said this, Yang Yueze fell silent.

Seeing him not speak, Li Miao laughed.

"If you want to be a tough bone, then hold on until you die."

"You've said what you've said, suffered the pain, and your Wu Gong is ruined. If you keep holding on now, isn't it a waste?"

These words were truly reasonable, and Yang Yueze couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Who is your excellency? With such Wu Gong, why is there no name in the Wu Lin?"

"If I had known your excellency was here, I would never have come to Shaolin."

He knew very well that he had become half a useless person, and revenge was hopeless. Moreover, his life and death were now in Li Miao's hands.

He could only hope that Li Miao truly had a grudge against Ji Tianrui.

Thinking of this, Yang Yueze no longer remained silent and told Li Miao everything one by one.

This telling took half an hour.

After Li Miao finished listening to his words, he sat on the stone bench in the courtyard, twisting his fingers while thinking carefully.

"Your grandfather's death back then was indeed a bit suspicious."

Yang Yueze snorted coldly.

"With so many people from the five major sects coming, how could my grandfather not have received the news? If he wasn't prepared, he could have just fled. If not for Ji Tianrui secretly poisoning him, forcing my grandfather to stay and channel his energy to expel the poison, and then having to carry the experts of the five major sects with a weak body, how could he have died so easily."

"After my grandfather died, Ji Tianrui began to purge his confidants. If my grandfather hadn't vaguely sensed something wrong after being poisoned and sent my parents away in advance, I wouldn't be here today."

Li Miao said again.

"But, Ji Tianrui poisoned your grandfather, yet it was the experts of the five major sects who killed him."

"Master Xingchi was also one of them."

"But how come I see you seem to have no malice toward him?"

Yang Yueze steadied himself and said.

"Once you enter the Wu Lin, life and death are the boundaries."

"My grandfather was not a good person, and he was prepared to die at the hands of others."

"We Yang family members, whether doing good or evil, bear the consequences ourselves. We won't be like those hypocrites who find so many excuses to whitewash their actions."

"Although the five major sects used a wheel battle that day, it was open and aboveboard, fighting one by one; my grandfather died happily."

"If Xingchi ever falls into my hands one day, I will definitely kill him. But his grudge can be avenged or not."

Speaking of this, Yang Yueze gritted his teeth.

"Only Ji Tianrui, Ji Tianrui that bastard!"

"Using such a despicable act as poisoning to secretly harm my grandfather, plotting to seize the Ming Cult, making my grandfather die in such an unclear way! In his last battle before death, he couldn't even use seventy percent of his power! He became a laughingstock in the Wu Lin for nothing!"

"He died with his eyes wide open!"

"This grudge, we Yang family members must avenge!"

Yang Yueze said this fiercely and wanted to continue cursing Ji Tianrui a few more times.

Suddenly, he stopped, his eyes sweeping over his own crippled lower body.

He suddenly flushed red in the eyes, and the veins on his neck bulged.

"Your excellency, I have said everything I should say; now I only ask for a quick death!"

Li Miao raised an eyebrow and looked at him strangely.

"You've suffered the pain and said the words. Why do you suddenly want to die again?"

"You are still useful; I can spare your life."

Yang Yueze was suddenly anxious and said sharply.

"Your excellency, I really don't want to live anymore!"

"Consider it me begging your excellency; today I provoked you, and you have vented your anger, so we should be even."

"Now I only ask you to do it, kill me! I have notes about Ji Tianrui that I recorded in my bosom; you can take them. Other than that, I am truly useless to you!"

However, the more he said this, the less Li Miao wanted to do it.

Matters related to the Ming Cult often involved witchcraft.

Death often meant there was another plan.

Seeing Li Miao delay in doing it, Yang Yueze became even more urgent.

"Your excellency, do you think I am a good person?"

"Although I don't walk the Wu Lin much, in recent years I have truly killed many good people; your excellency should have heard of it! The Sun family in Beizhili, the Wang family in Qilu, the Qi family and Zhou family in Huguang, were all blood cases I committed; I left no one, old or young, and they all died extremely miserably."

"Your excellency need not worry about killing a good person by mistake; you are acting on behalf of heaven, and I have no complaints!"

These things he mentioned were all famous unsolved cases in the Wu Lin in recent years, and Li Miao had heard of them; it seemed his words were not false.

However, Li Miao still said indifferently.

"If you don't explain the reason why you suddenly want to die, I won't do it."

"Your Ming Cult has too many tricks; I am a guest, if something unclean comes out of your corpse, how can I explain it to Shaolin?"

Once Li Miao said this, Yang Yueze fell silent.

Suddenly, he shed tears.

"I, I have no feeling in my lower body..."

"I am going to be incontinent."

Yang Yueze looked at Li Miao, his eyes red.

"We Yang family members can do evil, can die, but cannot be humiliated."

"I cannot stain the name of my Yang family."

"Your excellency, kill me."

"Just consider it me begging your excellency!"

Li Miao swept a glance at his lower body; sure enough, water stains had already faintly seeped out.

"Fine."

He raised his hand, and a sharp Qi shot out, piercing Yang Yueze's heart.

"Using your Ming Cult's Profound Heaven Finger to kill you, you can also die with your eyes closed."

Yang Yueze covered his chest and moved his lips.

"Thank... you..."

"Ji... Tianrui..."

Li Miao looked at him and said.

"I will send him down; you just wait."

Yang Yueze nodded, collapsed with a bang, and lost his breath.