Chapter 5: From Now On, I and My Father

Inside the Saint Maiden Hall, all was silent.

Everyone was dumbfounded by Shen Qingli's words.

A moment later, Zhao Yue shouted angrily, "You rebellious daughter, do you know what you're saying?!"

"Zhao Saint Maiden, as you heard, I know exactly what I'm saying." Shen Qingli's eyes were extremely cold, "Since I began cultivating, you have never taught me how to cultivate, nor have you ever taught me the Saint Maiden Peak's techniques."

"Everything I learned comes from the Phoenix Soul Awakening inheritance! It has nothing to do with you, Saint Maiden Peak, or the Biyu Sect!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's faces changed!

Zhao Yue's face turned ashen to the extreme; as Zhao Saint Maiden, not mother or master, she still uttered such nonsense!

"From beginning to end, you never let me join the Biyu Sect! Sect Master Bai, there is no disciple life tablet for me in the Life Tablet Hall under your charge!" Shen Qingli stated plainly!

In her previous life, she had sworn never to enter the Biyu Sect!

After being reborn, she realized she had actually never joined the Biyu Sect!

The ridiculous part is that in her previous life, she had been toiling like an ox and horse for the Biyu Sect until they drained her dry and discarded her.

Well, it's fortunate!

She had never joined the Biyu Sect!

"I am not a disciple of the Biyu Sect, nor have I ever received any favor from you, yet you seized my Phoenix Bone and gave it to your inner disciples! I ask you, on what grounds?" Shen Qingli questioned!

"You..." Bai Ren Shan looked at Zhao Yue, eyes showing surprise and bewilderment, "You didn't let A Li join the Biyu Sect?"

Zhao Yue's face was grim, yet she said, "She is my daughter, born a disciple of the Biyu Sect; why bother with those empty formalities?"

"Not bad." The other peak masters and elders nodded in agreement; this was indeed the Biyu Sect's unspoken rule: all along, the children of each peak's master must join the Biyu Sect to prevent the core techniques from leaking out.

However, Shen Qingli gave a cold laugh, "Your daughter? That was in the past. Now, I, Shen Qingli, have no relation whatsoever with you!"

"Wretched creature!" Zhao Yue exploded in rage, "You don't even acknowledge your birth mother! Have you fallen into demonic cultivation? Only demonic cultivators disregard six kin! You wicked girl, it seems you cannot be allowed to live!"

Before her words even finished, Zhao Yue reached out from afar to seize Shen Qingli!

Zhao Yue is a Xuan Sect-level powerhouse; when she gets serious, Shen Qingli is no match for her.

The overwhelming Xuan Sect power pressed Shen Qingli to vomit blood on the spot, unable to bear it any longer, she dropped to one knee.

Zhao Yue's palm carried the force to shatter decay, smashing down toward her celestial cover, "Die!"

Shen Qingli immediately lifted her head, her eyes sharp as a hawk's, as if she could faintly erupt with a phoenix's cry!

She fixed her gaze on Zhao Yue, weeping blood as she questioned, "It was you who stripped away my Phoenix Bone! You severed our mother-daughter bond! Even a vicious tiger does not eat its young; you are so vicious—I want to see how you advance to a venerable position!"

Zhao Yue's pupils contracted!

Slashing bone and blood, heaven and earth cannot tolerate.

The palm wind she pressed down instantly gathered.

Yet the residual force still bombarded Shen Qingli's celestial cover; she felt her head about to split, and blood instantly flowed from her seven orifices.

Yet she still held her head high, "Yes, you gave birth to me, but I have already repaid your kindness of giving me life; that whole body of Phoenix Bone was stripped by your own hands!"

"From now on, I have no relation with you! Did I say something wrong? Or do you still want my flesh and blood? How sorry, my flesh and blood belong to my father!"

Zhao Yue rose to her feet, "What is your father? It's I who gave birth to you and raised you! Now you actually dare to be so rebellious, spewing wild talk! It seems the Heaven Thunder Pool isn't enough; you should be cast into the Endless Abyss!"

Endless Abyss...

Including Bai Ren Shan, everyone's faces changed.

If the Heaven Thunder Pool is nine deaths and one life, then the Endless Abyss is ten deaths and no life!

But everyone understands that Zhao Yue's ruthlessness is actually forced by Shen Qingli; she most despises others mentioning that faithless, treacherous dao companion.

"Then it's settled." Bai Ren Shan looked compassionately at Shen Qingli, "Even if your mother has some faults, you shouldn't be so defiant."

"With your nature, it's better to kill you decisively now than let you fall into demonic cultivation and bring disaster to the world later. Come, take her away."

Disciples of the Law Enforcement Peak immediately came to Shen Qingli's side, intending to detain her and send her to the Endless Abyss.

No one in the hall made a sound; they all watched coldly.

Shen Qingli showed a sneer, feeling not the least bit surprised.

This is the sect she had devoted her full effort to for fifteen years; clearly she had done nothing wrong! On the contrary, they were like horseflies, constantly clinging to her to suck blood!

Now, having lost her Phoenix Bone and with her Phoenix Soul shattered, she obviously had no value, so they discarded her like a worn-out shoe.

It doesn't matter; on the way to the Endless Abyss, she will surely escape.

From now on, she and this sect will have no relation whatsoever.

Shen Qingli, resolute in her decision, had not revealed that her cultivation had mostly recovered, allowing the Law Enforcement Peak disciples to carry her out.

"Wait."

A voice icy to the extreme transmitted.

Immediately after, a flash of icy light appeared.

Two figures appeared out of thin air in the center of the hall.

Shen Qingli lifted her gaze and was instantly stunned!

Father!

Younger brother?

"What are you doing here?" Zhao Yue's voice sharp, "Saint Maiden Peak does not allow you to step inside! Get out!"

"I have come to take my daughter away." The handsome and dignified Shen Kuo slowly walked up to Shen Qingli's side.

Shen Qingli never expected that her father, who seemed dead, would actually appear here!

In her previous life, he had never appeared at all.

Even until her death, she had never heard any news of him.

"Older sister."

Young Shen Jin called out with a complex tone and reached out his hand toward Shen Qingli.

Shen Qingli grew increasingly bewildered—was it an illusion?

After years apart, the chubby little brother from her memory—how could he have grown up without a word, and even started to look a bit like the statue she had inherited?

"How? She treats you like this, and you still want to follow her wholeheartedly?" Shen Jin spoke mockingly; his complex gaze instantly turned into indifferent sharpness, actually resembling that statue more!

"Shen Kuo! Don't forget what we agreed on back then! The daughter is mine!" Zhao Yue shouted sharply!

Shen Kuo looked at her indifferently, "But you don't want her anymore."

"Then she won't go with you either!" Zhao Yue said, walking down from the hall, intending to pull Shen Qingli over.

Shen Qingli immediately dodged her hand; Zhao Yue looked hurt, "A Li! What are you doing? Don't forget how he abandoned us mother and daughter back then! You even chased out of Saint Maiden Peak, and he didn't even glance at you!"

"At least he didn't violently tear out my phoenix bone, nor cast me into the endless abyss." Shen Qingli stood behind Shen Kuo and saw a little white snake's head poking out from his wide sleeve.

It turned out, it went to spread the news.

In her previous life, she couldn't save the little white snake, so this didn't happen.

Now, she raised her head to look at Shen Kuo's tall, straight back, feeling only estrangement.

But she still said, word by word, "From now on, I'm with my father."

"I'll beat you to death!" Zhao Yue, furious and flustered, actually slapped a palm toward Shen Qingli's chest.