Talisman Emperor
Chapter 967 Becomes a Chess Piece
Cui Clan. The Honorable Guest Pavilion.
Cui Fangghu left hurriedly after he brought Chen Xi and Bei Ling here. As one of the higher-ups of the Cui Clan, he had to participate in the Ancestral Worship Ceremony.
Inside the empty and luxurious hall, only Chen Xi and Bei Ling were left.
Chen Xi held onto a cup of tea and sipped on it silently while she recalled all the details since they had entered the Cui Clan Estate.
"I .." The nearby Bei Ling hesitated for a long time, and she found it hard to express her thoughts.
Ever since they entered the Distinguished Guest Pavilion, this ice-cold woman seemed as if something was weighing down on her mind. At this moment, Chen Xi could not help but smile when she saw him like this. "Only you and I are here. Do not hesitate to express your thoughts. "
A wisp of self-mockery appeared on the corner of Bei Ling's cherry lips, and she said after a while, “I wonder if I'm the one who's too sensitive, like, but I still felt that the change in Qingning was happening too quickly, and it made her feel very foreign to me. "
"He really has changed." Chen Xi nodded and said, "This is true when you think about it. He was only about twelve years old, yet he experienced so much misery. How could he be the same as the past? ”
Bei Ling raised her head and looked at Chen Xi before she said abruptly, "Then, do you feel that after we enter Violetsilk City, it will be right now, the result would be the same even if we weren't there?"
Chen Xi was stunned and speechless as this was the question he had pondered earlier.
Previously, the Ancestor of the Cui Clan, Cui Zhenkong, and all the seniors of the Cui Clan had appeared, and they captured Second Elder Cui Fangjun before directly annihilating the Thousand Ghost Ape, Hou Zhan. This series of actions caused Chen Xi to feel that everything that had happened before had actually been noticed by the seniors of the Cui Clan a long time ago.
This kind of feeling caused him to feel uneasy in his heart. Thus, he had been contemplating this secretly ever since he entered the Honored Guest Pavilion. At this moment, when Bei Ling opened it, she finally understood that her feelings seemed to be right …
“In short, I feel cheated.” Bei Ling's beautiful brows united as she pondered deeply for a long time, and then she made a conclusion.
Chen Xi raised her eyes to look at Bei Ling, and she did not speak any further
Meanwhile, a wave of footsteps rang out from outside the Distinguished Guest Pavilion, and accompanying this wave of footsteps was a skinny and stooped old man with jade green hair stepping with a cane in his hand.
It was exactly Wen Xiaofeng.
"Daoist colleagues, thank you for having me." Wen Xiaofeng smiled as he spoke.
Bei Ling was stunned and glanced at Chen Xi.
Chen Xi spoke calmly. "Don't be mistaken, this Elder Wen isn't like Second Elder. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to succeed so easily when I exchanged blows with Elder Wen earlier. "
Wen Xiaofeng laughed out loud and said, “Daoist Partners are being humble. With your strength, even if I don't hold back, it might be impossible for me to be a suitable match for you. "
He's telling the truth. Although he had only exchanged one punch with Chen Xi, Chen Xi's unfathomable strength made him feel a wisp of terror.
For an old man like him who was part of the Jadesky Ghosteye Wood who had reached the Dao, this kind of feeling was something that had not appeared in all these years.
So he did not dare to air when talking to Chen Xi, nor did he dare to take on a senior position.
Bei Ling finally reached an understanding when she heard this. Wen Xiaofeng and Cui Fangjun did not work together, and he had even secretly lost intentionally in the confrontation from before.
So this old man was a crafty person as well.In his heart, Bei Ling seemed to have regarded Wen Xiaofeng as an existence like Hou Zhan.
After they sat down, Chen Xi asked. "Older Wen, aren't you participating in the Ancestral Worship Ceremony?"
"I am only a Guest Elder and not a member of the Cui Clan, so I am naturally not qualified to participate in it." Wen Xiaofeng shook his head, and then he said, "I must thank the Daoist Peers for escorting the Young Miss back safely this time around. I've received instructions from the Ancestor, and the two of you can make any requests. Think of it as a small form of the goodwill of my Cui Clan. I hope you both will accept this. ”
Chen Xi's eyebrows shot up.
Bei Ling was unable to contain herself instead, and she said coldly, "Could it be that your Cui Clan thinks that we are escorting Young Miss Cui back for some sort of repayment?"
As far as he was concerned, they seemed to regard all of this as a trade, and they intended to expel everyone after the trade was over. It was very disappointing for him.
Wen Xiaofeng seemed to have expected this scene from the start, and he immediately explained. "Daoist Dean, you misunderstood. This is merely the goodwill of my Cui Clan. We were just so afraid of ignoring the two of you, and we had absolutely no other intentions … "
Bei Ling's beautiful brows were united, and she was just about to say something when she was held back with a glance from Chen Xi.
"Older Wen, there's no need to thank you," Chen Xi said indifferently, "I just want to know how the Cui Clan will deal with Cui Fangjun."
Wen Xiaofeng pondered deeply for a moment before he revealed a wide smile at the corner of his mouth, and he said, “Actually, the fate of the Second Elder has been determined a long time ago, and she was of course not used more after Young Miss returned. "
These words were highly provoked, but to figures like Chen Xi and Bei Ling, they instantly guessed what these words meant, and their hearts practically instantly turned cold.
What do these words mean?
"In this way, for Young Miss Cui, or perhaps for the entire Cui Clan, the Second Elder is just a grindstone?" Bei Ling pursed her cherry lips lightly as she spoke slowly, and her voice carried no fluctuation of emotions.
"You can think of it that way." Wen Xiaofeng nodded and did not avoid it at all.
"You're all really clearly aware of the various tribulations that young Miss Cui encountered along the way?" Bei Ling's clear eyes couldn't help but narrow, and they let out a terrifying arch.
Wen Xiaofeng looked as if he did not notice, and he shook his head and said, “We are unaware of all this as everything is arranged by the Ancestor. His intentions were as vast as the world, so how could it be determined by us? "
Bei Ling pursed her lips and did not speak any further. He was worried that he would not be able to control the anger in his heart if he kept asking about it.
"Then what about the Netherworld Disk?" Chen Xi who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke with a question. His handsome face was completely calm and indifferent, causing no one to be able to discern exactly what he was thinking in his heart.
"Daoist Fellow, let me ask you something. With the Ancestor present, do you think my Cui Clan can watch lazily when the Saint Artifacts of the clan are stolen? ”When Wen Xiaofeng spoke, he could not help but laugh. “Unfortunately, the Second Elder was very intelligent all his life, but his passion for power was too great. For the sake of controlling the Punishment Bureau, he colluded with outsiders to bring disaster to the clan. He felt he had done this perfectly, yet he had no idea that all of this was actually under the control of the Ancestor. "
Wen Xiaofeng instantly held back a laugh when he saw Chen Xi and Bei Ling speechless, and he faintly sensed that the moods of these two people were a little gloomy.
After a casual chat about some irrelevant topics, Wen Xiaofeng immediately said goodbye when he saw the two of them lacking in attention.
Before he left, Wen Xiaofeng repeatedly told them that the Ancestor would find the time to give Chen Xi and Bei Ling an audience after the Ancestral Worship Ceremony ended, and he said this opportunity was hard to come by, so they should not go ahead of time to avoid missing out on the golden opportunity.
…
Within the Esteemed Guest Pavilion, only Chen Xi and Bei Ling remained.
The atmosphere is oppressive.
The blob of anger could not help but hang on Bei Ling's beautiful and white face unmatched. "I never imagined that any of this was a situation that someone had planned from the start, and he played with us in a circle."
Chen Xi took a deep breath and laughed with self-deprecation before she said, "Comparatively speaking, that the Second Elder is actually a pitiful person. He took pains to design so many operations, yet he became a grindstone in the hands of the Cui Clan's ancestors. He was really stupid and naive. ”
Bei Ling was stunned, and then she laughed lightly with a complicated expression. "Is he pathetic? The saddest might be the members of the Cui Clan who died at our hands. Besides, aren't we the executioner's sword in the hands of the Cui Clan's ancestors? "
When he spoke here, he suddenly thought of something and said, "Do you think Qingning knows about all this?"
Chen Xi was silent for a moment before she finally shook her head. It was not that he refused to answer, but that he was unable to confirm the answer.
At this point, Chen Xi and Bei Ling roughly determined that all the attacks and tribulations Cui Qingning had been going through all this time were actually the training that the Cui Clan Ancestors had planned and controlled from the very beginning.
The purpose of this was very simple, and it was none other than to allow Cui Qingning to quickly change and become an adult in the midst of a moment of life and death.
On the other hand, the two of them happened to be present at the right time and took this training, so they could not blame anyone for this.
"This Cui Clan Ancestral Method can actually be said to produce clouds with the flip of one hand and produce rain with the other, and he benefits in many aspects from one move." After calming down for a long time, Chen Xi could not help but sigh with emotion. "The matter in the Cui Clan might have been around for a long time, and Cui Fangjun was by no means a good person, either, whereas the Ancestor of the Cui Clan relied on this opportunity to make arrangements with Young Miss Cui as a chess piece."
"This arrangement not only weakened the future Patriarch for the Cui Clan, even the black sheep in the Cui Clan were wiped out during this training, he said, and that was equivalent to helping Young Miss Cui in removing all obstacles standing before her and controlling the authority in the Cui Clan. "
"The most difficult thing to come by was that from start to finish, the Ancestor of the Cui Clan did not move by himself at all, so it naturally could not be considered a brutal murder of a member of his own clan."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xi started laughing for no reason, and he did not speak any further.
Basically, he deserved to be used by someone else this time because from the beginning to the end, they had not invited him to participate in it at all, and he was the one who took the initiative to move forward. So who can he blame?
Of course, he could eliminate this from his mind, and he would not hate the Ancestor of the Cui Clan either, but the prerequisite was that he had to confirm one thing.
He wanted to know if Cui Qingning was aware of all this from the start!
This was always very important to Chen Xi!
Bei Ling was not as generous as Chen Xi, and she felt increasingly dissatisfied the more she thought about it. This kind of feeling of being opposed by others caused him to feel unwell as if he was swallowing a fly.
"Let's go. I don't want to stay here for another moment. The chance to be granted an audience by the Cui Clan Ancestor was hard to come by? I don't appreciate it at all. Maybe he'll even trick us, "Suddenly he stood up and spoke out sternly.
"All right." Chen Xi thought for a moment before she agreed as it would not be too late for her to ask Cui Qingning about all of this after she found Qing Xiuyi and was about to leave Netherworld.
But just as the two of them had just walked out of the Honored Guest Pavilion, they saw a familiar face that they had never expected would come to greet them.
“Brother Chen Xi, Miss Bei Ling, I know that you are both very surprised. But you two will naturally understand everything after meeting the Ancestor. ”When he saw the two of them walking out of the Honorable Guest Pavilion, the person was stunned, then he cupped his hands and spoke with an apologetic expression. .
His figure was thin, and his appearance was cold and stiff. To his surprise, he was Gu Tian, the leader of the guards whom Chen Xi believed had suffered misfortune long ago!