Chapter 38: After All the Phoenix Bones Have Returned to Their Places

"Ah!"

"Ah! Ah! ……"

"The increasingly shrill wails repeated Shen Qingli's lament."

"I screamed like that that day too, and no one came to save me."

"Shen Qingli had tears in her eyes, yet she showed no mercy, pulling out each bone slowly and precisely."

"She kept feeding Su Chacha fine elixirs, so even if Su Chacha screamed until her throat was raw, she could still cry out."

"When you coveted my bones, did you ever think I would pull them back out one by one?"

"Shen Qingli didn't think this revenge was meaningless at all; she only felt exhilarated! The resentment, hatred, unwillingness, and pain pent up in her heart dissipated bit by bit as she pulled out each piece of bone."

"Beneath the Mysterious Terrace—"

"Someone couldn't bear to watch."

"Shen Qingli, however, was laughing, 'Look, Su Chacha, so many people sympathize with you.'"

"They aren't even our fellow disciples, and many of them have never met you before."

"Yet even after knowing your wrongdoings, they sympathize with you, pity you—what about me?"

"That day, my dear mother was also pulling out my bones like this, and the junior martial brothers and sisters, martial uncles, and martial uncles in front of me all happily said, 'Pulling them out well!'"

"Shen Qingli's words were tantamount to grinding the faces of everyone in the Azure Jade Sect into the ground!"

"Yet the people of the Azure Jade Sect remained kneeling, and those who stayed silent remained silent."

"Those who had originally sympathized with Su Chacha all showed complex emotions for a moment."

"'Pulling out a few pieces is about enough.' Bai Li Chongtong suddenly spoke, 'Anyway, these bones are all yours now—if you call them, will they answer?'"

"Although he knew perfectly well, these bones were Shen Qingli's!"

"But if we let her keep pulling them out like this, the little junior martial sister will really die!"

"Su Zhengzong also hurriedly shouted, 'Not bad! These bones—'"

"'Yes.' Shen Qingli interrupted Su Zhengzong, pulling out another bone, her hands covered in blood, her face splattered with bloodstains, her body also stained, 'I said, come back.'"

"As if casting a spell, the bones that had been pulled out, even the bones inside Su Chacha's body, emitted a mournful phoenix cry!"

"Shrill, melodious."

"Like a hellish evil ghost weeping, it recounted her ordeal of being trampled into an evil ghost."

"What is that!"

"Someone cried out in shock, for they saw unimaginable scenes!"

"Each bone pulled out by Shen Qingli flashed with a scene."

"Those were the scenes they witnessed when they were pulled out."

"What she said is true."

"It's true……"

"Actually, everyone knows Shen Qingli couldn't possibly lie."

"But no amount of corroboration is as impactful as the real scenes themselves."

"And right now, each bone is ironclad proof of blood!"

"Impossible."

"Zhao Yue looked at the ferocious version of herself in the images and panicked."

"Is that her?"

"Impossible."

"She didn't even realize that, while pulling out Shen Qingli's phoenix bones, she actually looked like that."

"Others were the same; even if they hadn't forgotten what they'd done, they had always thought they were blameless."

"Until they saw these images, and themselves within them."

"Including Pei Jianshu, he was there too."

"He was there at the time too!"

"I—"

"Pei Jianshu's voice trembled slightly."

"He also found it a bit hard to watch what Shen Qingli was doing right now."

"But Shen Qingli had once been subjected to such brutal torment as well."

"Yet he didn't even think there was anything wrong with it back then?"

"It was clearly wrong."

"He was wrong."

"A Li—"

"Pei Jianshu looked at the blood-covered girl on the Mysterious Terrace, who was personally seeking justice for herself, his eye sockets slightly red, the darkness in his depths growing deeper."

"Many disciples of the Azure Jade Sect also had reddened eye sockets……"

"People are just that strange; when swayed and stirred by emotions, they always firmly believe they are on the right side."

"Of course, not everyone can repent in the face of blood evidence; the innately wicked part still feels no guilt."

"For example, Gu Cihe even felt exhilarated! But to obtain the Fire Phoenix Inheritance, he had to suppress the urge to burst out with angry curses!"

"What's with acting all tragic!"

"It's all the punishment Shen Qingli deserves, right!"

"If she weren't at fault, how could she receive such punishment?"

"No, no, please, let me go……"

Su Chacha seized the moment Shen Qingli relaxed her hand, desperately begging for mercy, weeping sincerely.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, I know I was wrong, I—ah—"

Shen Qingli pulled back the spine bone; Su Chacha was in such pain she couldn't straighten her waist, her cultivation already disintegrating!

Su Chacha panicked, Su Zhengzong panicked even more, "Profound Envoy! Profound Envoy……"

"You will bear the consequences of the wrongs you committed in the past."

The Profound Envoy did not want to get involved, only staring at that aloof deity.

No one knew that the Profound Envoy's mission was to find the successor of the Supreme Unity Divine Venerable and report upward.

"Come back, all of you."

Shen Qingli, tired from pulling, raised her arms and shouted!

This also once again proved that when she called them, they would indeed respond.

"Cry!"

"Cry……"

Each piece of phoenix bone responded with a mournful yet resonant echo.

Each piece of phoenix bone was like a young phoenix breaking out of the mire.

Such shocking scenes moved people to tears and also inspired them.

"Is this sarcastic?" Zhou Chuanfeng looked at Baili Chongtong, "You, you all didn't expect this, did you? The bones of the heaven‑proud also have their pride. They are merely lying low for now—do you really think they are just rotten bones for you to slaughter at will?"

Baili Chongtong could not speak.

The disciples of Saint Maiden Peak also recalled how, when Shen Qingli had just had her phoenix bone pulled out, she stubbornly resisted her master's oppression, even wanting to shatter the phoenix bone with her phoenix soul.

"The pride of the phoenix!"

"Once again she gave them a lesson!"

"But as the saying goes, laypeople watch the excitement, while experts see the essence."

Shen Kuo, this old father, was already proud to the point of being unable to contain himself.

"\"Phoenix Will. \""

Shen Kuo's voice was hoarse; he never expected his daughter, so young, to have cultivated Phoenix Will.

The will of the phoenix is far harder to cultivate than phoenix bone or phoenix soul.

Even he himself had only a slight grasp of it.

Yet his sixteen‑year‑old daughter had already cultivated pure Phoenix Will.

With the will present, the soul naturally does not perish, the bone does not fade, and one can almost achieve indestructibility.

"Such talent, placed within the clan……"

"\"Union. \""

As the final piece of bone was assembled.

Su Chacha had rotted into a puddle of flesh and blood, yet her form remained intact and she was still alive.

She lay there flat on the Profound Platform, witnessing Shen Qingli's phoenix bone being reassembled.

"\"Come back. \""

Shen Qingli opened her arms, welcoming her own bones, and also welcoming her past suffering.

"\"Cry——\""

The phoenix bone let out a long cry, the blood light completely dissipated, revealing a spotless, crystal‑clear bone.

All the filth clinging to it dispersed.

Just as the slander, blame, and abuse once heaped upon Shen Qingli were all dispelled.

Frame after frame of gruesome images, like a screen, let everyone witness what days Shen Qingli endured in the Azure Jade Sect.

Some blurry images also arose, merging with the phoenix bone into Shen Qingli's body and mind.

"\"Cry! \""

"\"The moment of fusion! \""

The huge phoenix shadow shone to the utmost!

It illuminated the canyon, and even the entire Xuanti Continent faintly became visible.

Profound Mountain trembled!

Everyone was startled, looking anxiously toward Profound Mountain, only to see three phoenix shadows of different colors shooting up into the sky.

"\"That's, that's the Ice Phoenix Fairy! The Azure Luan Fairy! The Yellow Phoenix Fairy! \""

"\"This, this, the Five-Lineage Phoenix Fairies! \""

Everyone stammered.

"But the fact is so."

When Shen Qingli's phoenix bone returned.

The inheritance of the Five-Lineage Phoenix Fairies also belonged to her.

That magnificent, splendid scene will be unforgettable for all cultivators on the Xuanti Continent who witnessed it.