Chapter 1187
Xuanyu 43
Chapter 1187 Xuanyu 43
"The mastermind behind the murder of your mother was the Huangfu clan. My mother did not have any direct grudge against Xuanqi Immortal Lord. Even if she was an accomplice, her crime was not serious enough to warrant death."
"What do you mean even if she's an accomplice?" Jin Ming glared at him. "She was an accomplice to begin with. Everyone has already seen very clearly what she did."
"Besides, our adults didn't say they wanted to kill her. They attacked the adults first. She struck first, and she was vicious. She had the intention to kill."
“Since the other party has murderous intent, even if we adults kill her on the spot, no one can criticize us.”
Jin Ming's words were logical and well-reasoned, and some of the immortal lords present immediately nodded in agreement.
"Indeed, if someone attacked us like that when we were traveling, I would definitely fight back with my life."
“From beginning to end, Immortal Lord Xuanyu did not take the initiative to attack; he only responded passively.”
"They're just relying on their family connections to try and bully the weak with numbers."
"I just didn't expect that so many people couldn't do anything to a newly ascended immortal lord."
Listening to the immortal lords' discussion, Helian Sheng's face flushed red. Helian Xi looked at Helian Sheng, then at Zhongli Yan and Nangong Yan trapped in the formation, and her hand holding the sword hilt suddenly froze.
Even if it means death, she wants to see Zhongli Yan and Nangong Yan walk ahead of her! And her eldest brother, who always considered himself the eldest son of the Helian family, was usually the most upright and honest man.
Now that his most genuine interests have been touched, he doesn't care about anything else.
Helian Qiao could no longer stand idly by. He had four wives in total. Apart from Xuanqi, who had no family support, the other three all came from prominent families.
However, the Huangfu family lost Huangfu Jianchun, Huangfu Rong, and Huangfu Wei, and the relationship between the Helian family and the Huangfu family has been completely broken. Unfortunately, he was helpless against Tan You, since she was using the banner of avenging her mother.
Once this banner was raised, everyone naturally sided with Tan You.
But Zhongli Yan and Nangong Yan cannot be harmed. If the Helian family were to simultaneously antagonize the three great established families, they would surely face annihilation by the remaining forces of the Immortal Realm.
Helian Qiao certainly didn't want to see this situation, as he prioritized his own interests above all else.
Therefore, Helian Qiao stepped forward, and with a flick of his right hand, a black, cone-shaped object landed in his palm. Tan You raised an eyebrow slightly: "A divine artifact? No wonder it comes from a powerful and influential family."
Her eyes were practically green with envy. She was penniless, unlike the wealthy and powerful Helian family, who could take the artifact so easily.
As Helian Qiao channeled his immortal energy, and the Cloud Piercing Cone flew towards the Star Array, the other two Immortal Lords of the Helian family suddenly attacked Tan You simultaneously. Their attacks were fierce, but without any killing intent; they seemed to want to capture Tan You alive.
Tan You smiled slightly, and with her left hand she drew a spatial rift. Just before the attacks of the two veteran Immortal Lords of the Helian family arrived, Tan You had already stepped into the spatial rift and quickly moved to another location.
The attack missed, and the two Immortal Lords of the Helian family narrowed their eyes. They believed that their attack had been extremely swift and that they had sealed off every corner around Tan You.
However, they did not expect that this Xuanwei Merman who had been living abroad not only had superb array formations, but also had reached a state of perfection in his understanding of the laws of space.
"As expected of a quasi-god, truly extraordinary." The two immortal lords did not linger in the fight. They already knew they could not capture Tan You, so why make a fool of themselves?
At this moment, Helian Qiao had no time to care about Tan You. How could a Celestial Lord use a divine artifact? He was now barely using the Cloud Piercing Cone, which had almost drained most of his immortal power.
Even the Cloud Piercing Cone failed to completely break the Star Array. It only penetrated the outer three layers of the Star Array, while the inner three layers of the array remained unbreakable.
With a casual gesture, Tan You summoned the Cloud Piercing Cone embedded in the formation. After carefully sensing it for a moment, Tan You smiled and said, "If this Cloud Piercing Cone is controlled by a High God, my Star Formation naturally cannot do anything to it."
"But you, a mere Immortal Lord, think you can rescue someone from my Star Array? You are overestimating yourself."
Unable to defeat her in a fight, Helian Qiao could only try to reason with Tan You. He stared at Tan You: "What exactly do you want? Don't forget, you are a daughter of the Helian family."
“I told you, if you want to be my father, you need to produce evidence first.” Tan You played with the Cloud Piercing Cone: “I’ve heard that you old families all have ways to confirm your bloodline.”
"For example, jade glass?" Tan You smiled maliciously. "Take out jade glass that represents my identity, or bloodline sensing? Do you have either of those?"
“You…” Helian Qiao was so angry he almost fell over backward: “You have already stripped away the Immortal Lord’s bloodline and completely reverted to your ancestral form as a Xuanwei Merman, so how can the bloodline connection work?”
"So you have no evidence?" Tan You chuckled. "If you can't produce any evidence, how can you expect to be my father with just empty words? That's not how daydreams work."
Helian Qiao finally understood: "From the very beginning, you never intended to return to the family?"
“Yes, I never intended to go back to the Helian family from the very beginning,” Tan You raised an eyebrow. “Congratulations, you finally understand.”
Helian Qiao: "Think carefully. The Helian family is a great family in the immortal realm. Once you return to the family..."
"I hate people like you who talk about interests all the time." Tan You interrupted him: "I understand the principle of 'love follows profit' better than you do, but it's impossible for a person to act solely based on interests in everything they do in this world."
"Some things are far more important than interests, such as justice and fairness."
Tan You said loudly, "Many people claim to be upright, but that's only before their actual interests are touched. Once their core interests are touched, they can't care about so-called justice and fairness."
“Take you for example,” Tan You smiled, “For the sake of justice and righteousness in my heart, I am not afraid to be an enemy of the whole world.”
“Xuanqi was murdered, and I was forced to wander to the mortal realm. None of your three wives were innocent. While I was cultivating in the mortal realm, the Huangfu family sent Huangfu Rong to hunt me down. Even the Huangfu family’s branch in the mortal realm, the Huang family, has been searching for my whereabouts for more than ten thousand years.”
As Tan You spoke, she glanced at Huang Yuxiang, who was standing at the very edge. Huang Yuxiang's eyes darted around, clearly not expecting Tan You to even know this.
"I painstakingly planned and ascended to the Immortal Realm, but just because you are Xuanqi's Daoist partner, Xuanqi's grudges and my suffering over the years have been so easily dismissed by you?"
"Helian Qiao, you are unjust to your Daoist partner and unkind to your children. How dare someone as unjust and unkind as you have the audacity to want to be my father? Don't you even look in the mirror? Do you deserve me to call you father?"
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