Song Yan swept his divine sense again and saw that during the "Rain Listening Island Sword Sect Elite Disciples' Exchange," Su Yanqing, who had not favored Bai Xiuhu, was also present.

However, he did not choose that woman.

No acquaintance, no interest.

When Gong Libai humbly approached to inquire, he directly picked Miss Su Seven and the young lady Yuzhuang, while also instructing Gong Libai to call the cultivators who captured the two women.

Two iron cages soon floated in the sky, followed by a female cultivator in a black robe with a decaying face, who bowed from a distance and respectfully said, "Blood Corpse Peak, Lv Xingyan, paying respects to Sect Leader."

Song Yan glanced at the approaching Blood Granny and said, "This female cultivator is not bad, nurture her well."

Blood Granny hurriedly acknowledged.

The demon sect female cultivator named Lv Xingyan was also overjoyed, continuously bowing in thanks before retreating.

Capturing Miss Su Seven from the Su Family was certainly a significant achievement, but at this moment, a word from the new sect leader was already the best reward.

Song Yan waved his hand, and the iron cages approached, sticking to the front of the flying palanquin.

Within, Miss Su Seven, whose eyes were originally lifeless, showed a moment of hatred upon seeing him, but it was only for an instant, and after that, she sank back into silence like dead water, a doll seemingly without life or soul.

The bit of dignity and grandeur she had painstakingly cultivated before had vanished completely.

But this was no surprise; even the strongest person would collapse and feel dead inside when family members died one by one before their eyes and their clan was exterminated.

Song Yan looked into the distance and asked, "How many are at the Crimson Palace Realm from the Su Family?"

Blood Granny waved her hand, and three coffins floated over from afar, settling beside the flying palanquin, the lids opened to reveal two men and one woman.

Blood Granny said, "The Su Family's second elder, Su Yingren; the Su Family elder, Su Hongxian, and Yuan Bixian."

Su Yao suddenly turned her head, looking at Su Yingren's face in the coffin, let out a piercing scream, then collapsed at the front of the iron cage, crying and shouting, "Second Brother! Second Brother!"

Song Yan waved his hand.

Blood Granny closed the lids again and then withdrew.

Song Yan looked at the young lady Yuzhuang.

Cao Yuzhuang also looked at him with indifference.

Song Yan looked at this young lady who once obeyed his every word and said, "Do you not recognize me?"

Cao Yuzhuang closed her eyes, sighed softly, and said, "Kill me."

Song Yan squinted at the two women, with a casual wave of his hand.

Pa.

Pa.

The two cages opened, and the two women floated from the cages into his flying palanquin, landing on the couch opposite him, their bodies sinking into the luxurious carpet. But one was tearless and lifeless, while the other closed her eyes, not looking at the demonic Song Yan across from her.

Song Yan said, "In a moment, I will send you to Luoxia Bamboo Island."

Miss Su Seven seemed to hear nothing.

Cao Yuzhuang also kept her eyes closed.

Song Yan studied the two women, suddenly realizing that Su Yao's Dao heart had completely collapsed. The Su Family was gone, so even if she returned to Luoxia Bamboo Island, what would it matter now? As for Cao Yuzhuang, her heart was dead, with no desire to live.

No wonder, Song Yan's reputation had long been tarnished by the wolf demon, and now that his identity as the Puppet Sect Leader was exposed, everyone at the Nanwu Sword Sect probably wanted to skin him and eat his flesh.

As for the matter of the "Elder," he had learned about it from Red Granny and the ancient general. But knowing did not change things; the "Elder not having much to say" meant tacitly approving the imposter as real, endorsing "Song Yan's evil deeds."

In this world, not everything can be explained clearly.

Nor is there a need to explain.

The air suddenly fell silent, a strange stillness emerging.

Suddenly, Song Yan raised his hand, and the seemingly soulless Miss Su Seven floated to his side.

Her posture proud, her legs long, her water apricot eyes lacking spirit, yet indeed a top beauty.

"Nice legs."

Song Yan suddenly praised.

Then...

Rip, tear~~

A crisp sound, like a sword robe ripping.

Song Yan picked up Su Yao with both hands, lifting her high.

Then slowly, slowly...

Inside the flying palanquin, suddenly, it became noisy.

He turned his gaze towards Cao Yuzhuang opposite him, summoned her, and said, "Come, together."

...

A long time passed, and then some more.

The two bodies lay crosswise on the carpet, covered with the ruined sword robe, Su Yao's small foot still hooked on Song Yan, eyes that were lifeless now seemed to brim with new emotions.

Good emotions, bad emotions, they were emotions nonetheless, at least no longer empty.

Song Yan said, "Su Yingren's corpse is quite good; I will refine it into a blood corpse to fight for me."

After speaking, he thought for a moment and said, "By the way, the elder's corpse is also good; I will refine it into a blood corpse too, hehehe..."

"Monster!"

Miss Su Seven scolded.

Upon hearing this rebuke, Song Yan did not mind, bending down to pinch her chin, saying, "Do you know how foolish you are?"

After speaking, he started listing from South Bamboo Peak, recounting the foolish things Su Yao had done one by one, then mockingly laughed, "Look at everything you have done, look at the self-righteous growth you thought you had, look at the miserable end you have met.

Heh, I won't kill you, nor will I imprison you. Once we reach the Puppet Sect, you will be my furnace; no matter where you go during the day, you must return at night to serve me.

But I think you will definitely commit suicide, as you wish.

You were always the type who seemed strong but was actually fragile, a young lady.

"You are too weak, not only is your power weak, but you are also a worthless piece of trash that only drags people down."

After speaking, he glanced at Su Yao with a disdainful look, then slowly looked at Cao Yuzhuang, smiling, "You, too, are just as foolish.

Well, you'll receive the same treatment as your new master."

After speaking, Song Yan ordered outside, "Bring two robes of my Puppet Sect disciples, and also fetch two flying swords.

By the way, is Su Yingren's flying sword still available?

If it is, then bring that one over."

Soon, the Profound Robe of the Puppet Sect and Su Yingren's flying sword arrived.

Song Yanru tossed them onto the two women as if discarding garbage, saying coldly, "If you can still move, put on the clothes and use sword control to stay by my palanquin. Where I go, you go."

...

...

A moment later...

Song Yan's flying palanquin began to move slowly towards Luoxia Bamboo Island.

Blood Cliff and Qu Yue cleared the way at the front, Copper Hu found a place to heal, while the other Crimson Palace level demon cultivators aligned themselves on either side, and many Puppet Sect disciples respectfully followed behind.

However, the palanquin entourage now included two people who hadn't been there before—Su Yao and Cao Yuzhuang.

These two women shared many similarities.

They were both very beautiful and had both lost their entire families because of the Puppet Sect. For some inexplicable reason and pride, they obeyed Song Yan's words and accompanied him at the sides of his flying palanquin like maids.

At dawn, instead of welcoming reinforcements, the besieged defenders of Luoxia Bamboo Island were met with a vast army of enemies.

The sword cultivators looked on desperately from a distance, especially at the palanquin in the center.

They already knew who the person inside the palanquin was.

But what surprised them were the two women beside the palanquin.

There was a buzz of discussion for a moment.

Song Yan slightly lifted the curtain, condescendingly gazing at the island, and only when Yu Xuanwei came out did he intend to speak.

Yet before he and Yu Xuanwei could say anything, a female cultivator rushed out from the crowd on the island.

The female cultivator shrieked, "Demon! Where is Bai Xiuhu, did you kill Bai Xiuhu?!"

Song Yan fixed his gaze and saw it was Little Li, his junior sister.

He hadn't yet opened his mouth when a demon cultivator beside him shouted harshly, "Insolence!"

Song Yan waved his hand, and the demon cultivator respectfully stepped back.

Song Yan looked around and asked, "Who is Bai Xiuhu?"

Instantly, there was whispering among the Puppet Sect, and shortly after, Blood Cliff came forward and explained who "Bai Xiuhu" was.

Song Yan impatiently asked, "Is he dead?"

This time, quite a while passed, yet no one dared to speak because none of them had encountered Bai Xiuhu, and obviously Bai Xiuhu was on the Shadow Puppet Void Ship at this time.

Song Yan said coldly, "Did you miss someone?"

As soon as the words fell, Blood Grandmother hurriedly explained, "Sect Leader, the Misty Sea is too vast, plus the interference of the two fox wolf demons, perhaps... perhaps indeed, there are cultivators who escaped."

Even she truly did not know Bai Xiuhu's true identity, after all, what they had seen upon entering the Alchemy Room was not Bai Xiuhu, but rather Song Yan.

At this moment, she was even prepared for her master's fury.

However, upon hearing this, Song Yan merely nodded and looked at Little Li, his junior sister, and said calmly, "Did you hear that?"

Then he paid no further attention to Little Li, but instead looked at Yu Xuanwei, smiling, "See, am I not sincere?"

Yu Xuanwei said, "If you release my many fellow sect members, then that will be sincere."

She glared intently at the high palanquin and continued, "I know you want to repair the ancient teleportation array, and I agreed to help you, but now... everything from the past no longer counts.

I promise you, I am determined to fight to the death. If I die, even though your Puppet Sect has array masters, you will absolutely never repair the ancient teleportation array!"

Song Yan found it amusing and asked in return, "Little girl, do you think I might agree to your demands?"

Yu Xuanwei said, "Then release the people on this island?"

She initially intended to present an "absurd demand" before making her "real demand."

If the Puppet Sect insisted on attacking Luoxia Bamboo Island, it was only a matter of time before they breached it.

Song Yan lowered his gaze, seemingly pondering for a moment, then said, "Crafty little girl, you sure know how to negotiate.

Fine, I agree with you.

However, you must immediately go to the ancient teleportation array to conduct repairs, not a single day can be delayed.

The things you need, I have them, take them."

After speaking, Song Yan gestured, sending forward the storage bag containing "Gu Huangzi and Blood Grandmother's soul gold stones" to the array.

Yu Xuanwei did not immediately retrieve it but quietly watched Song Yan, and only after Song Yan waved his hand, causing the Puppet Sect's cultivator army to retreat, did she finally open the array by a narrow margin and let the storage bag fall through.

When she probed inside, she was startled.

There are so many soul gold stones inside?

Meanwhile, Little Li, his junior sister, also clasped her hands at her chest, silently praying for Brother Bai. She thought the demon Song's words shouldn't be false, which seemed to indicate Brother Bai had escaped injured.

As long as he wasn't dead, it was good.

...

On the other side, Song Yan dispersed the cultivator army, leading Su Yao and Cao Yuzhuang to the Library Pavilion on Copper Sparrow Island, saying, "I've roughly gone through the books here, but couldn't find any cultivation notes from the late-stage Crimson Palace realm elders or sect leaders. Do you know where they are?"

He needed to find information to break through to the Purple Mansion realm.

Su Yao looked at him coldly, eyes filled with killing intent.

Song Yan directly met her gaze.

After a long while, Su Yao said, "Demon, have you ever seen a family put secret notes in the Library Pavilion? Follow me..."

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