My Master Disconnected Yet Again (Part 4)

Chapter 683: Traitor in the Sect

"Little Yi!" Tian Ji took the chance to fly up toward catch Shu Yi. Yet, he did not stop there. Instead, he carried her onto his sword and flew out together.

"Eh! Uncle-Master Tian Ji, you-" Yu Luan wanted to stop them, but Tian Ji suddenly turned back. He threw a dharmic weapon over. It was not to attack Yu Luan. Instead, Tian Ji was throwing it to Zuo Shuming.

Tian Ji moved too quickly. The dharmic weapon was just about to hit Zuo Shuming, but Chef thrust his sword and broke its trajectory. Tian Ji, who was still in the air, conjured a seal and disappeared into thin air.

"This..." Everyone in the yard was stunned. It was a long time before anyone regained their composure.

Moments later, Yu Luan asked, "Uncle-Master Yi Qing, Shu Yi was..."

"She became a demon!" Yi Qing answered.

Everyone: "..."

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Yu Luan and the other elders could not come to terms with the fact that Shu Yi had become a demon. But the facts were right in front of their eyes. There was no faking the demonic Qi that they saw in the yard earlier. The only thing they did not quite understand was why a perfectly good person would become a demon just like this. What's more, she injured Elder Shu Yuan. No matter what, Shu Yuan was Shu Yi's father. Now, not only were his meridians broken, his cultivation level had fallen all the way back to the initial stages of Nascent Soul cultivation. To this day, he was still unconscious.

There was Supremacy Tian Ji as well. He was a Soul Formation Supremacy in the sect. It was normal for him to protect his own disciples, but he did not even offer an explanation before he escaped together with Shu Yi. This confused them as well. No matter how much he wanted to pamper his disciple, there was no need for them to escape the sect together.

It was then that Lonemon told them about the fiendish cultivator Zhong Yi, and how he had not come looking for them on purpose, but had actually been trying to escape the sect. At the same time, the group found a secret storage space on Dan Xia Mountain. There were indeed signs that a fiendish cultivator had sayed inside there. Everybody seemed to realise something.

"It seems that Tian Ji had become a demon a long time ago," Yu Luan sighed. "It's no wonder that Junior Brother Yin would..." He trailed off mid-sentence, but everybody seemed to know what he was going to say.

Tian Ji was a cold man, and he did not have very good relations with the other people in the sect. But Perfected One Yin was one of the few people who were actually close to him From time to time, Perfected One Yin would make trips to Dan Xia Mountain. Lonemoon guessed that he probably knew things that he wasn't supposed to know of – that was probably why he was killed by Tian Ji. It was no wonder that they did not find the murderer even after so long. It was no wonder that Perfected One Yin did not even have the chance to seek help. All he could do was explode his own Nascent Soul.

The more everyone thought about these things, the more shocked they felt. Was it also Tian Ji's doing, that Shu Yi suddenly turned into a demon? Then did he have an ulterior motive in bringing the entire group of them to look for Shu Yi? Their thoughts shifted to Shu Yuan, who was still unconscious and who nearly lost his Nascent Soul. If Shu Yi could do this to even her own father, what more could she do to them?

If they had entered the house that day...

Upon thinking of this, the entire group fell silent. It was a good thing that Uncle-Master Yi Qing realised something was wrong. Otherwise, they would have lost everything.

Lonemoon remained silent beside them as well. He couldn't help but think – it was true that the entire group was not wrong but they were thinking a bit too much. Tian Ji had not turned into a demon yet. The only one who did was Shu Yi. Tian Ji only ran away because he was afraid that everyone would find out about the fact that he harboured a fiendish cultivator and killed an elder in the sect. He just did not want to face the consequences of his actions.