Chapter 90: Zhao Yue Got What She Deserved

Shen Kuo's face changed instantly, his voice cold as an ice blade, sharply saying, "You also dare to say the word 'teach'?"

Zhao Yue's smile gradually faded, her eyes also turned cold, "How am I not qualified? It's you who isn't qualified, abandoning her, not wanting her, always you! Everyone has the right to speak of me, except you, Shen Kuo."

"He does." Shen Qingli gripped his father's hand that was pulling at his sleeve, firmly rebutting, "You won't let him come see me, you brainwashed me, telling me he doesn't want me, and telling me not to seek him."

"Watching our father-daughter bond break with your own eyes, watching me acknowledge you as a thief and become your mother, and still having you forcibly pull out the phoenix bone to elevate your daughter's vile constitution—you must feel great, right?"

"What nonsense are you spouting!" Zhao Yue remained stubborn.

"Pei Jianshu has searched your soul; what did you do to my mother? Do you think you can still hide it?"

"He's talking nonsense! He altered my memory!" Zhao Yue insisted.

"What did she do?" Zhong Wuqi's voice came faintly from above.

Zhao Yue's body suddenly stiffened, then relaxed, obviously feeling secure and fearless.

Shen Qingli observed this, calm at heart, "She schemed to break Zhong Minglan's saintess physique; you obviously already knew."

The appearing Zhong Wuqi had an unpleasant expression, yet his words surprised Shen Qingli.

"I don't know, continue." She said.

Shen Qingli looked at her eyes, seeming to suppress something, and still continued.

The more Zhong Wuqi listened, the uglier his face became! Obviously he truly didn't know about Zhao Yue's despicable deeds.

"Mother, hear me out,"

"Pa!"

Zhong Wuqi directly gave Zhao Yue a slap!

The force was so great it nearly knocked her down the mountain.

Zhao Yue's face instantly swollen high, eyes brimming with tears, she looked resentfully at Shen Qingli.

"Your nature, I know well; what she says is the fact."

Zhong Wuqi was certain, Shen Qingli didn't lie, and Pei Jianshu certainly hadn't altered memories.

Seeing she couldn't distinguish right from wrong, Shen Qingli then said, "Since you already know the facts, please hand over the person to me; I want to personally slay my mother's murderer."

"No!"

"Don't even think about it!"

Zhong Wuqi's voice and Zhao Yue's rebuke spoke out together.

Shen Qingli looked at Zhong Wuqi, "You clearly know she's the one who killed Zhong Minglan, yet you still want to protect her?"

"Didn't expect that?" Zhao Yue wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, sneering with delight and relief, "I am now the only genius capable of cultivating the Holy Mother Sect's Reincarnation Technique; you can't do anything to me."

"Moreover, I am your mother, and that will never change! If you dare to be disrespectful to me again, Shen Qingli, your disgrace of defying your birth mother and disrespecting blood relatives will spread far across Sheng Long Tian. By then, let's see how you'll still be a person!"

"Cry!"

A clear, harsh phoenix cry suddenly rang out!

An ice‑colored little phoenix suddenly swooped to tear at Zhao Yue's pulse.

"Stop!"

Zhong Wuqi immediately unleashed a magical artifact, a snow‑white horsetail whisk sweeping the phoenix away.

Although her cultivation surpassed Shen Kuo's, caught off guard she still couldn't keep up.

"Sigh."

Su Yuan's voice sighed out.

Her Su Nv Sword even more so hovered before Zhao Yue, precisely blocking Shen Kuo's critical strike!

"Hum!"

Sword resonance.

"Cry!"

Phoenix wail.

Both burst forth together.

Zhao Yue was directly shaken by the aftershock, retreating over ten zhang.

She gazed coldly at Shen Kuo, "You dare to sneak‑attack and kill me! I am the Holy Mother Sect's Saintess, you merely a junior of the Shen Clan—this is to make an enemy of my Su Nv Sect!"

"My Shen Kuo's actions alone need not reflect on the Shen Clan." Shen Kuo suppressed his surging blood, stifling the urge to vomit blood, "Killing you doesn't need to dirty A Li's hands. As a father, I can take care of it."

"Apologize!" Shen Qingli said.

Others still didn't understand, Shen Qingli's Taiyi Divine Sword had already appeared!

"Sect Master Su, you harmed my father for no reason and hid yourself—is this how your Su Nv Sect treats guests?"

"Impudent!" Zhong Wuqi angrily rebuked, "Shen Qingli, what status do you have! You dare to treat our sect master so rudely!"

"Your Su Nv Sect is the impudent one!" Shen Qingli's eyes turned purple, sword intent soaring to the heavens, the Taiyi Divine Sword humming incessantly.

"As the legitimate young master, the honored Shen Clan Young Master, I have personally come to your Su Nv Sect; sending Zhao Yue to humiliate me would have been enough, but now that provocation is settled, Zhao Yue deserves death—and she died as she should!"

"Yet the Su Nv Sect's master struck my father and didn't come out to apologize—on every principle, I, Shen Qingli, am in the right!" Shen Qingli, sharp‑worded, activated the Taiyi Sword Art.

The Taiyi Divine Sword, gathering power, kept enlarging.

A massive sword, ancient and simple in appearance, purple light shining, like a deity standing between heaven and earth, stood behind Shen Qingli.

Earlier, when slaying the three saintesses and Mo Buyi in the Ten Directions Forest, the Taiyi Divine Sword was still just trying out its edge.

Now, at this moment!

Only now is Shen Qingli exerting her full strength.

Even though her cultivation is merely Profound Ancestor, it still falls short of Zhao Yue's at this moment.

But Zhao Yue had a feeling that she was fundamentally no match, that she could be instantly slain by Shen Qingli.

This is not an illusion.

Because even someone like Zhong Wuqi, a Mysterious Saint-level existence, actually also secretly felt startled.

Although there was no threat to her life, she still couldn't help but feel terrified!

"Is this the unique aspect personally transmitted by the Taiyi Divine Venerable?"

Zhong Wuqi harbored doubts in his heart; he could only attribute it to Shen Qingli's inheritance master already being able to manifest sage, so it was different.

Faced with such a domineering Shen Qingli……

Shen Kuo immediately took a healing pill, calmed his mind and regulated his breath, and healed his injuries.

"Sorry, it's because this sect leader failed to strictly discipline those under him."

Su Yuan floated out into the air, like a flawless immortal maiden untouched by the mortal world.

Compared to Zhong Wuqi, Shen Qingli felt that Su Yuan resembled Zhao Yue's master more.

"Lord Seventh Shen Kuo, just now this sect leader acted without restraint; I apologize to you. This is our sect's finest healing pill—please accept it." Su Yuan apologized to Shen Kuo without any reservation.

Shen Kuo looked at his daughter; seeing her nod, he then took the healing pill.

"And yet you call him father? I see you more as a dog that blindly obeys Shen Qingli!"

Zhao Yue sneered, and Su Yuan backhanded her with a slap!

Her face swollen on both sides, she looked puzzled at Su Yuan: "Sect Leader?"

"Idiot!" Su Yuan's eyes flashed with killing intent; if it weren't for killing Shen Qingli, she would never waste a Return-to-Origin Pill on this idiot—he doesn't deserve it! That Return-to-Origin Pill, which she herself hated to use, was used just to restore this idiot's dantian.

Zhao Yue finally fell silent, but this was completely unlike what she had imagined; how could she, as the Holy Mother Sect's saintess, be considered equal in status to Shen Qingli?

No, the Su Nv Sect ought to be stronger than the Changshui Shen clan; why must she still bow her head to Shen Qingli? And she must also be humiliated in public by her foster mother and the sect leader one after another!

No matter how unwilling she was, she dared not act rashly anymore; she could only endure, holding it in.

Su Yuan had already turned her gaze to Shen Qingli, speaking gently, "Earlier, our Su Nv Sect was remiss in hospitality; Young Lord Shen Qingli, having come from afar, please enter our sect, take a seat, and we can chat—don't let people laugh at us."

The commotion here was too great; it had indeed attracted considerable attention.

Besides the members of the Su Nv Sect itself, many people from other forces and rogue cultivators were secretly observing.

"There's nothing laughable or not laughable." Shen Qingli showed no reaction, not even retracting her sword intent: "I'm here solely to avenge my birth mother; whoever sees it makes no difference."

Since the Su Nv sect leader has come forward, I, as a junior, will directly ask you for the one who personally killed my sworn sister— the murderer who killed my birth mother Zhong Minglan—Zhao Yue.

Su Yuan frowned.

Shen Qingli, however, gave her no chance to refuse.

"Sword!"

At her command, the Taiyi Giant Sword burst forth with victorious purple light!

"What are you doing?!"

Su Yuan shouted angrily, never expecting Shen Qingli to be so impervious to persuasion.

"Slay the killer of my mother!"

"Please, Sect Leader Su, make way!"

"Otherwise, I, as a junior, will be rude!"

"You dare to strike me, and you think you can actually strike me?!"

Su Yuan's face held no gentleness anymore, only fury and a deadly aura!

Shen Qingli looked at her coldly and said, "Senior, go ahead and try."