Chapter 319

Chapter 319: Childhood Sweethearts

"Is it the Zhengyang Sect? They’re also an imperial-level force. Regardless, we must capture this Zuo Tianyang and spread the news to force Kenai Ling to reveal herself."

"As long as Kenai Ling comes out, we can capture her and force her to hand over control of the Sword Demon Palace…"

"Even if we cannot control Kenai Ling, killing her will eliminate the greatest threat to our Divine Fire Sect."

"What does everyone think?" The Sect Master of the Divine Fire Sect looked at everyone.

"I agree. It’s worth any cost just to lure Kenai Ling out."

"I agree as well; we must eliminate Kenai Ling…"

"Agreed!"

Almost everyone supported using Zuo Tianyang to coerce Kenai Ling.

At that moment, the Sect Master of the Divine Fire Sect turned his gaze to Shi Xiran and lightly asked, "Do you know anything else? Speak up."

Hearing this, Shi Xiran quickly shook her head. "Sect Master, I have already shared everything I know about Kenai Ling…"

"Are you sure? Think again…"

"Sect Master, I truly don’t know anything else about Kenai Ling…"

Upon hearing this, the Sect Master furrowed his brows.

"Fine, I’ll perform a Soul Searching myself."

Having said that, the Sect Master beckoned and directly grabbed Shi Xiran, leaving her no room to resist, not even to plead for mercy.

In truth, if it weren’t for the seriousness of the matter, the Sect Master would not want to conduct a Soul Searching.

Soul Searching cannot retrieve a person’s entire memory; it can only search for deeply ingrained memories.

However, the matters concerning Kenai Ling were too critical for the Divine Fire Sect, so he had to utilize every means available.

No one objected to the Sect Master performing Soul Searching on Shi Xiran; in fact, many thought it was the right course of action.

In the main hall, the Sect Master began the Soul Searching process on Shi Xiran.

Time passed slowly, and soon an hour had gone by.

If the Soul Searching is brief and the searcher is significantly more powerful than the person being searched, the damage to the soul of the searched individual can be negligible.

However, if the Soul Searching is prolonged, even if the searcher is of a much higher cultivation level, it will still cause immense damage to the soul of the person being searched.

After a while, the Sect Master released Shi Xiran.

At that moment, Shi Xiran’s soul had suffered significant injury, and she appeared dazed.

"Sect Master, what did you find?" an elder asked the Sect Master.

Hearing this, the Sect Master sighed. "This Shi Xiran truly knows little about Kenai Ling."

"However, since Shi Xiran was once Kenai Ling’s friend, we can use her and Zuo Tianyang together to force Kenai Ling to appear…"

While the Divine Fire Sect held its meeting, they were unaware that everything happening here was under the surveillance of a powerful divine sense.

"So it’s Zuo Tianyang from the Zhengyang Sect!"

Li Xiaojun’s divine sense quickly scanned the surroundings.

His divine sense covered the entire planet, so it didn’t take long for him to locate the position of the Zhengyang Sect.

The Zhengyang Sect also had a Grand Formation to protect the mountain that could block others’ divine sense.

However, this was very simple for Li Xiaojun.

Before long, his divine sense extended inside the Zhengyang Sect.

Then, he himself entered the formation.

The formation of the Zhengyang Sect was like a place with no people to Li Xiaojun, who was a sixth-tier spiritual fruit formation master.

Quickly, through the Soul Searching of the Zhengyang Sect disciples, he found the target he was looking for.

In the next moment, Li Xiaojun silently appeared in a cave halfway up a mountain.

Inside the cave, a young man was cultivating, and this young man was Zuo Tianyang, whom the Divine Fire Sect was searching for.

"Soul Searching!"

Unbeknownst to Zuo Tianyang, Li Xiaojun began the Soul Searching process.

His cultivation had reached the Golden Immortal realm, and as long as he didn’t perform a lengthy Soul Searching, he could do this without causing any harm to the target’s soul.

Before long, Li Xiaojun understood Zuo Tianyang’s memories.

It turned out that Zuo Tianyang had a significant connection to his daughter, Kenai Ling.

The two were actually childhood sweethearts.

From Zuo Tianyang’s memories, Li Xiaojun learned that he was born in a village called Zuojiazhuang.

When he was four years old, a beautiful woman came to the village with a three or four-year-old little girl by her side.

This beautiful woman was Kenai Xue, and the little girl was Kenai Ling.

After that, Kenai Xue brought Kenai Ling to live in the village.

Because of Kenai Xue’s arrival, Zuo Tianyang’s destiny underwent a tremendous change.

Since he enjoyed playing with the foreign Kenai Ling as a child, Kenai Xue discovered that he had top-grade spirit roots and accepted him as her disciple.

For over a hundred years afterward, he cultivated alongside his teacher Kenai Xue and junior sister Kenai Ling.

At the same time, he and Kenai Ling became mutual admirers, childhood sweethearts.

He wanted to make junior sister Kenai Ling his partner, but his teacher said he must wait until he reached the Nascent Soul stage to be with her, so he trained diligently.

Unfortunately, one fateful day more than a hundred years later, a nightmare occurred.

On that day, his teacher Kenai Xue returned severely injured and took Kenai Ling away but didn’t take him along.

Kenai Ling only instructed him to leave Zuojiazhuang immediately and join the nearby Zhengyang Sect.

After his teacher left, Zuo Tianyang followed her instructions and departed from Zuojiazhuang, ultimately joining the Zhengyang Sect.

For a long time after parting from his teacher and junior sister, he lost all contact with them.

Until recently, he received a letter from Kenai Ling.

It was a farewell letter from his junior sister, as well as a will.

She told him that her mother, Kenai Xue, had died, killed by someone, and that she intended to seek revenge for her mother.

She mentioned that her enemy was powerful, and her quest for revenge would likely end in failure.

Thus, she urged him not to think of her in the future and to find another partner.

Upon reading his junior sister’s letter, Zuo Tianyang desperately tried to gather information, but he found nothing.

This was because Kenai Ling hadn’t told him where she was, who her enemies were, and so on.

Even the messenger only handed the letter to a Zhengyang Sect disciple and then left.

So, he couldn’t even inquire about his junior sister’s situation from the messenger.

During this time, Zuo Tianyang searched for any news about Kenai Ling while diligently cultivating.

He understood that if his junior sister was truly in great danger, his current cultivation level would be of no help.

If she died, he needed to become stronger to avenge her in the future.

After viewing Zuo Tianyang’s memories, Li Xiaojun felt a sense of regret.

His other children, when they appeared on various life planets, were actively reproducing offspring.

Yet Kenai Ling had not formed a relationship with Zuo Tianyang because of her mother Kenai Xue, resulting in no descendants.

Had Kenai Xue allowed Kenai Ling and Zuo Tianyang to become partners during their youth, the entire planet might now be filled with their bloodline.