Cultivation: I Can Reincarnate Into Various Worlds-Chapter 513 - 266, Haian beheading, Master Xu makes an appearance
To sacrifice one person's reputation for the benefit of the entire Nanhua Sect... Master's Wife, why would you do this...?
Thinking of this, Ding Jifeng raised his head to look outside the corridor. Seeing the splendid sunset, he sighed softly, a trace of desolation on his face.
Since his Master's Wife, Ye Hualian, was wholeheartedly devoted to the Nanhua Sect, his previous suspicions undoubtedly made him feel like a petty person.
He had hurt her heart!
No wonder his Master's Wife had said those words when she left.
From beginning to end, it seemed the Nanhua Sect had never sincerely accepted Ye Hualian. She was an external cultivator, even though she held the prestigious status as the Sect leader's wife.
A female cultivator who marries into a sect, no matter how loyal, will always find it difficult to be truly accepted...
This isn't unique to our Sect...
Ding Jifeng shook his head. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
However, just as he finished pondering and was about to leave, fine snowflakes suddenly began to fall gently from the sky outside the corridor, drifting onto the ground.
In an instant, heaven and earth became a single color.
Everything was white.
"This..."
Stunned by the scene, Ding Jifeng stretched his hand out of the corridor, palm up, and caught a handful of the fine snow falling slowly from the sky.
The Nanhua Sect was located in the eastern part of East Huangzhou, near the Wangchuan Sea, and had always enjoyed a warm climate with distinct seasons.
It was already April in spring; logically, the weather should not have fluctuated so drastically to bring frost and snow.
"She has died..."
"Master's Wife has died."
Suddenly, Ding Jifeng seemed to guess something. He quickly turned his head towards the Nanhua Sect's Cave Haven, released his divine sense, and observed the surrounding Dao Principles.
In just a moment, the answer he found in his mind was exactly as he had guessed.
Today's unusual weather could only mean one thing: Ye Hualian, a Nascent Soul Daoist Lord, had chosen to die in the Cave Haven. After her death, her powerful Dao Principles influenced the surrounding regions, causing snow to fall in April and scatter across the mortal realm.
The consequence of worsening relations between the two Upper Sects could not be borne by just one person. This was true even if this person had an extraordinary status, such as the previous Sect Leader's wife, a formidable Nascent Soul Daoist Lord.
Therefore, only with the death of Ye Hualian, who had caused the enmity between the two sects, could this karmic tie be completely severed.
After all, the dead deserve respect.
Master's Wife, even in your passing, you've schemed against me, the Sect Master...
And yet, since you were willing to go this far for the Nanhua Sect, it goes without saying how you felt about your birth home, the Flying Feather Immortal Palace.
Ding Jifeng closed his double pupils tightly and sighed heavily.
Cultivators are different from mortals; they can clearly sense the day their lifespan will end. Nascent Soul Daoist Lords are even more formidable. Even when their end is near, they can use great divine powers to delay the decay of their lifespan. Therefore, for a Nascent Soul Daoist Lord, 'dying of old age' is not truly 'dying of old age'; it is a form of chosen, meditative departure. It is controllable!
In other words, Ye Hualian was far from the day she was fated to die. With her divine power and some life-extending spiritual objects from the Nanhua Sect, sustaining her for another ten or twenty years would not have been a problem.
In Ding Jifeng's view, his Master's Wife, Ye Hualian, chose to die today for two main reasons:
Firstly, she wanted the grudges between the two great Upper Sects to end with her, preventing the Nanhua Sect from offending the current Flying Feather Immortal Palace because of her actions.
Secondly, with her death, she was pleading. She begged him, the Sect Master, to help avert Heaven Overturning and assist her Close Sect and former birth home, the Flying Feather Immortal Palace.
Indeed.
Whether to help or not, the initiative was in his hands.
Help, or not help.
But... if he chose not to help, how would the cultivators of the Nanhua Sect view him?
Cold-hearted? Concerned only with benefits?
"Since, Master's Wife, you have asked this of Jifeng, then for my own conscience, Jifeng will help you. This is also for... the Righteous Path of the world..."
"To restore the righteousness of our Xuan Sect!"
Ding Jifeng gathered his wide sleeve, placed the fine snow from his palm into a Jade Bottle, and hid it within his sleeve.
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「Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and soon it was time for the Nanhua Sect and the Flying Feather Immortal Palace to sign the marriage contract.」
The marriage alliance between two great Upper Sects was considered a rare grand event in the Cultivation World.
However, on this day, the attention of the visiting Righteous Path sects shifted. It moved from Ruan Baimei and Zuoqiu Ying, the couple in the marriage alliance, to Xu Xing and Ruan Baimei, two peer geniuses from the Flying Feather Immortal Palace.
The struggle for the orthodoxy of the Upper Sect was of greater interest than a marriage alliance of the younger generation.
Secondly, the Butian Sect's strength was not insignificant. Although it was a sect "cobbled together," the combined strength of the Heavenly Saint Sect, Chongzhen Temple, and Starfall Sect was not to be underestimated.
If not for the Butian Sect's lack of a Nascent Soul Saint Monarch, its lineup alone would be comparable to the Ten Great Upper Sects.
"Master Xu is a rare prodigy in East Huangzhou. He reached the Nascent Soul Daoist Lord realm in only three hundred years of cultivation, overpowering the Heavenly Saint Sect Leader..."
"Compared to Ruan Baimei, Master Xu undoubtedly possessed superior talent. One was a Dao Pill Daoist, and the other a Nascent Soul Daoist Lord. If not for the internal conflicts within the Flying Feather Immortal Palace, Master Xu's qualifications should have secured him the position of Young Sect Master..."
Outside the Welcome Hall, cultivators from the various sects stood in rows, arranged by a Nanhua Sect deacon, to observe the wedding ceremony.
Although a solemn and dignified atmosphere was required, the cultivators present had other means. Through divine sense sound transmission, they privately and secretly discussed the "changes" that were about to occur.
As the main figures in this struggle for orthodoxy, Xu Xing and Ruan Baimei were inevitably being secretly compared by the cultivators from the various sects.
"I heard that a hundred years ago, the Master and Disciple Lineage of the Flying Feather Immortal Palace had seven Chiefs. Master Xu was originally designated as one of them..."
"According to the rules of the Flying Feather Immortal Palace, the next Sect Master would be chosen from among the Chiefs of the Master and Disciple Lineage. Disciples from the Family Lineage, however, had no possibility of inheriting the position of Sect Master..."
