Proud Sword Soaring Clouds

This time, Song Mingyue had come bearing a letter from Song Yi. In it, Song Yi had very cryptically written that he knew certain things about the Qin Family, expressing his hope to annul the marriage engagement. If not, and if all pretenses were dropped, the Song Family was not to be trifled with. Besides, someone else must have noticed the Qin Family’s activities over the years. Therefore, Song Yi was confident that upon seeing the letter, Qin Zhaoran’s first impulse would be to slaughter the entire Song Family to silence them!

However, that was far too unrealistic. Therefore, the optimal choice was to compromise and annul the marriage engagement quietly.

Song Yi had also said that how they cultivated was their business. As long as the Qin Family no longer bothered the Song Family, they would absolutely stay out of their affairs.

In reality, Song Yi knew very well that even if he went public with this information—that the Qin Family were all demons practicing a cruel and inhuman Demon Dao—people would have to believe him for it to matter.

After all, he didn’t have a shred of evidence. There was no mention of anything similar in the ancient surviving texts, either. When the time came, regardless of whether the other prominent families believed him, they would absolutely play it safe and watch the drama unfold from the sidelines.

That is, unless the Qin Family themselves lost their minds and went on a rampage capturing High-level Martial Artists. However, it seemed that up to now, the Qin Family had shown no such inclination, proving that they were also being extremely careful.

Therefore, publicizing the matter would not only fail to garner any support, but it would also lead to making a mortal enemy of the Qin Family. As the Clan Leader of a major family, it was a move Song Yi would never make.

Prioritizing stability was the most important duty of a patriarch.

This matter was a secret of the highest order, so it was understandable that Song Mingyue hadn’t known how to bring it up with Ling Xiao. Originally, she hadn’t been worried. They were both still young, and for many years, the Qin Family had shown no desire for a marriage alliance, nor had there been any contact between the families. On top of that, Song Mingyue was still disguised as a man back then. To bring something like this up to Ling Xiao out of the blue would not only expose the fact that she was a woman, but it would also make it seem... like she was just making trouble for no reason!

’Who would possibly believe such an outlandish story?!’

She never imagined that a whole series of events would later unfold, leaving her wanting to tell him but not knowing where to even begin.

After she finished, Ling Xiao was silent for a long while. In the Cultivation Realm, it wasn’t uncommon for some Cultivators, under the banner of vanquishing evil, to hunt down demons with millennia of power, absorbing their Inner Cores to enhance their own strength. After all, the original forms of these demons were mostly beasts; many were even stones, jade, trees, or flowers that had been nourished by the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for so long they gained sentience. Therefore, those Cultivators felt no psychological burden whatsoever when consuming their Inner Cores. Even Ling Xiao himself, though repulsed by the practice, merely refrained from doing it personally; he had never publicly condemned it. In fact, given Ling Xiao’s status, no one would have taken him seriously even if he had.

’But no matter what, you can’t just slaughter your own kind to advance your cultivation! Those are living, breathing people!’

Ling Xiao didn’t doubt Song Mingyue’s words. In the Cultivation Realm, there were plenty of such evil Cultivation Methods. In fact, Ling Xiao could recall several Evil Cultivator techniques from memory that could rapidly increase one’s power.

So, he wasn’t surprised that the people of this world had managed to figure out such a method for increasing their strength. But knowing about it was one thing; accepting it was another entirely.

Ling Xiao, for one, could never accept such a thing!

As he thought about this, Ling Xiao suddenly asked, "Then this time, at the exchange conference, will the Qin Family..." (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com. More Chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!)