The No.1 Undercover in the Immortal World-Chapter 99: I Decided to Scold Him Awake Right Then
Zhang Xiuya initially struggled mightily in his heart. To avoid a secret from being exposed, he started agreeing to do trivial things for Green Lotus. As the tasks he did grew in number, there was no turning back for him.
His soul gradually became twisted, until eventually, he stooped to the point of scheming against his own fellow sect brothers and sisters.
Lin Yun, listening to Zhang Xiuya’s account of his downfall, couldn’t help but sigh with regret. The world was indeed dangerous, and Green Lotus was certainly cunning and treacherous.
If Green Lotus had asked Zhang Xiuya to harm his sect mates from the start, he would definitely have refused. But by starting with small things and gradually getting him involved in bigger ones, he reached the point of no return, and could only be used by her.
"If you had been able to discern right from wrong at the beginning, instead of just focusing on protecting the sect’s image and allowing disciples to be humiliated, how could I have ended up in this situation today? I am unforgivable, but are you truly blameless?"
After Zhang Xiuya said this, Fang Yu had no response.
Several Elders were angrily scolding Zhang Xiuya, but they were only calling him a bastard. At this point, how could Zhang Xiuya care about such reprimands?
However, Fang Yu truly believed she was also at fault, looking at Zhang Xiuya with heartache, not knowing what to say.
Lin Yun, observing all this, couldn’t help shaking his head and sighing. My master is still too naive.
Perhaps it was because of many years of cultivating in the mountains, straightforward in her conduct, that she was not very familiar with the deceitful and fickle nature of people’s hearts. Even with advanced years and being an Upper Realm Cultivator, she found herself at a loss, her eyes reddened by her rebellious disciple.
At that moment, Lin Yun couldn’t just stand by and watch.
"You’re right," he said.
As soon as Lin Yun spoke up, everyone looked over, including Zhang Xiuya, who was confused. What the hell? You’re taking his side now?
Fang Yu also looked at Lin Yun. Frankly, she was in a phase of self-denial. If Lin Yun said she was wrong, and what he said made sense, she really might fall into a psychological shadow.
But then, Lin Yun took a sharp turn in his speech.
The first statement was merely to attract attention and make others listen to him.
"The Sect Master’s biggest mistake was accepting you, a man with the ambition of a wild wolf, as a disciple. The second biggest mistake was knowing you were useless and still trying to cultivate you. The third mistake was knowing your character was bad, but never suspecting you would betray her. Those are all her faults," he continued.
Lin Yun was ostensibly pointing out Fang Yu’s mistakes, but throughout his words, he was actually condemning Zhang Xiuya, making the Elders wonder, is this what being cultured is?
"Nonsense!" Zhang Xiuya shouted in fury, but it was just impotent rage; with Lin Yun standing next to four powerful members, could Zhang Xiuya really hurt him?
No way!
And so Lin Yun had nothing to fear, and went on, "Not convinced? Let’s sort this out. When I said you had the ambition of a wild wolf, wasn’t I right? You got into a conflict with someone, and you beat them senseless. Why? Simply because you prided yourself as a Cultivator. When the Sect Master blamed you for bullying the weak, what fault was there in that?
"And if you truly felt wronged, you could’ve refused to apologize. I would have respected you as a real man. But you apologized first and then annihilated a whole family. Was that the act of a human? Now, you feel wronged for killing an entire family?"
"I..." Zhang Xiuya was powerless to retort, for how could he deny that he’d killed people?
The lives of mortals are like grass in the eyes of Cultivators. But a Reputable Sect cannot cut down grass at will; otherwise, what’s the difference between them and the Demon Sect?
"I what? The strong rage, swinging their sword at those mightier, the weak rage, swinging their sword at those weaker. You didn’t dare to defy your master’s authority, so you vented your anger on a defenseless mortal. Calling you useless is not wrong, right?
"But that’s not even the most useless thing about you. The most pathetic thing is that you, a Cultivator, managed to leave behind evidence when killing to silence others. Tell me, aren’t you just too useless?"
"You!"
Zhang Xiuya spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot, angered by Lin Yun’s word by word calling him trash.
Without any mercy, Lin Yun continued, "What a pity, the Sect Master saw that you were useless and had no desire to train you as a successor, but she didn’t mistreat you, did she? When she said your temperament was poor, it was a reminder and teaching for you. If she had no concern for you, she would have let you die!
The Sect Master was merely looking for a disciple capable of being a leader, to take over a sect as large as the Shenxiao Sect. What she needed was responsibility and commitment, but all you had in mind was power. What’s wrong with her not letting you be the successor?
If your master had pretended to foster you as the successor and never intended to let you be the leader, then your discontent would have been understandable. But you could see your master never intended to train you as the Sect Master, so couldn’t you just focus on your cultivation?
Besides, if you truly couldn’t accept it, then why didn’t you try to change, to prove that your master was wrong about you? That’s what a person would do! Instead, you felt slighted by your master and betrayed the sect. You were jealous of the talented, harmed your junior brothers and sisters, and then blamed a master who trusted you utterly and educated you wholeheartedly. I have never seen such shameless audacity!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiuya, already injured, vomited blood directly and looked like he was on the verge of collapse.
Lin Yun: "???"
Are you playing the victim here? Did I scold you to death?
At least Wang Situ was trampled by a horse a couple of times!
But Lin Yun didn’t know that the blood Zhang Xiuya spat out was filled with regret.
At first, Zhang Xiuya was indeed very angry, but as Lin Yun dissected his actions layer by layer, he couldn’t help but admit that he truly was in the wrong.
In fact, he had always known deep down that he was in the wrong, but those who err prefer to find comforting excuses for themselves like ’if you’re not kind, then I’m not righteous.’
His rationalization was that everything wrong he had done stemmed from Fang Yu’s mistakes, thereby absolving himself of any wrongdoing.
However, Lin Yun completely negated this idea.
But following Lin Yun’s logic, Zhang Xiuya had to admit Lin Yun was right.
Zhang Xiuya fearfully looked at Fang Yu, meeting her gaze.
He saw that Fang Yu’s anger was mixed with self-reproach.
While others had called him a rebel, his master was actually contemplating whether she had done something wrong as a master.
Zhang Xiuya also finally remembered that every time Fang Yu had reprimanded him, she also pointed out what he did wrong.
So, what had I been doing all these years...
All of a sudden, tears started streaming down Zhang Xiuya’s face, and in that moment, he had an epiphany. It was also in this moment that the dark clouds in the depths of his soul began to slowly dissipate.
"It turns out I have been deeply entrenched by the Heart Demon without realizing it."
Zhang Xiuya whispered to himself, finally understanding the meaning of ’Heart Guarding.’
Heart Guarding, Heart Guarding, it’s about safeguarding one’s own heart.
Unfortunately, his heart had long been breached.
"Disciple is guilty."
Zhang Xiuya finally admitted his wrongdoing, but by this time, no one was there to scold him anymore.
