Volume 1, Chapter 88 – I’d Consider My Sword Dirtied by Your Blood

However, all of this was predicated on the two truly being evenly matched.

After several fierce exchanges between the siblings who shared no blood relation, Song Shixuan’s front lapel had been slashed open with a huge gash. A bloody mark had also been carved across his handsome cheek by sword qi.

Song Shixuan was forced back several steps by Song Shiyuan’s sword edge.

When he looked at the young woman before him again, Song Shixuan’s face was already filled with shock.

“Fourth Realm cultivator, Late Nascent Soul stage?”

Song Shiyuan held up her sword, its edge pointing at Song Shixuan’s throat, her eyes still ice cold.

“Song Shixuan, during these leisurely days among the fox clan, your cultivation has grown lazy.”

Song Shiyuan remembered that Song Shixuan had entered the Nascent Soul stage half a year before her.

But now, Song Shiyuan had already reached Late Nascent Soul, while Song Shixuan still remained at Mid Nascent Soul.

Song Shixuan, this fellow who had been pampered by the fox clan, cultivated slower than Song Shiyuan, who had her cultivation sealed by the female consort collar.

This was Lingxiao Sword Sect’s Young Sect Master, the prodigy of the Southern River Song clan?

He had probably already lost himself in the fox demons’ tender embrace, forgetting his original cultivation aspirations.

Song Shiyuan found it inexplicably laughable.

Laughable that she had previously truly regarded this man as someone important, even made him her lifelong goal to chase.

Thinking of how she used to follow behind this man, calling him “Brother Shixuan” over and over, Song Shiyuan felt she had been blind before.

The man before her was just a despicable, dirty, shameless, and vile scoundrel.

Aside from his appearance, he was completely worthless.

How did such a person become the Young Sect Master of one of the Seven Great Sword Sects?

Oh, it was because he was a disciple of Lingxiao Sword Sect’s Immortal Venerable Qingzhi.

Whether in the Demon Realm or Human Realm, Eighth Realm powerhouses were common as carps crossing a river, but those who could be crowned with the title “Venerable” were few and far between.

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In thousands of years, the Demon Realm had only produced one Demon Venerable, and the Seven Human Sword Sects had only produced one Immortal Venerable in a millennium.

Song Shixuan was Immortal Venerable Qingzhi’s disciple, with extraordinary talent that surpassed all others, which was why he could become Lingxiao Sword Sect’s Young Sect Master.

But Song Shiyuan was also Immortal Venerable Qingzhi’s disciple.

“My dear little sister, you truly surprise me,” Song Shixuan said.

“I am no longer your little sister,” Song Shiyuan said. “I don’t have a brother like you.”

Song Shixuan said coldly, “Just for the sake of a damned fox?!”

Song Shiyuan replied, “She is my dao companion.”

Song Shixuan’s eye twitched. “Shiyuan… that fox approached you with impure intentions from the start!”

Song Shiyuan’s eyes lowered slightly.

Had the little fox demon approached her with impure intentions?

Indeed, she had.

That night, the little fox demon had said so herself.

She had approached the person she liked with impure intentions, which was why she suffered such a calamity.

“I know,” Song Shiyuan said.

“You know? Then you still believe what he says?! You still turn against me for his sake?!” Song Shixuan was incensed.

“Because I like her. That’s enough,” Song Shiyuan said.

“You’ve gone mad! You’ve truly gone mad!” Song Shixuan said. “This is exactly what that Fox Monarch wants to see.”

“That Fox Monarch used just one little fox to turn us siblings against each other.”

“Song Shiyuan, how can you be so foolish, so willing to be used?!”

Song Shiyuan’s expression remained unchanged as she said, “Song Shixuan, you keep saying that Ming Zhaoxi is someone the Fox Monarch used to sow discord between us.”

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“Then I’d like to know, what exactly is our relationship that would be worth an Eighth Realm powerhouse personally scheming to divide?”

“What meaning would doing so have for her?”

Song Shixuan was immediately at a loss for words.

This was exactly what he couldn’t understand. Why would the Fox Monarch, as an Eighth Realm powerhouse, go to such great lengths to scheme against him and sow discord between him and Song Shiyuan?

Song Shixuan said, “Fox demons most enjoy toying with people’s hearts. Perhaps she does such things without any reason at all?!”

Song Shiyuan laughed softly.

She recalled the scene when she first encountered that Fox Monarch.

She had stayed in this Fox Palace for so long, yet had only seen the Fox Monarch once.

That demon fox bathing in blood beneath the moonlight had left a deep impression on Song Shiyuan.

Such a coldly beautiful woman, such a peerless powerhouse, would she truly be bored enough to do such things?

Song Shiyuan couldn’t be certain.

But she believed in the little fox demon.

She was willing to believe in the one she loved.

“Even if I’ve been deceived, so what?” Song Shiyuan said. “As long as I’m certain that I like her and she likes me, that’s enough.”

Perhaps the little fox demon had once used some wrong methods to approach her. But Song Shiyuan no longer cared about such things.

“Moreover, Song Shixuan, whether she deceived me or not, what does that have to do with you?” Song Shiyuan said.

“You’ve gone mad! You’ve truly gone mad!” Song Shixuan roared.

Song Shiyuan looked coldly at the raving Song Shixuan.

Setting aside whether the little fox demon had deceived Song Shiyuan, even if the little fox demon had once lied to Song Shiyuan, what did that have to do with the crimes this man before her had committed?

That day, the letter Song Shiyuan had found in Hu Xian’er’s study was written in Song Shixuan’s own hand.

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The countless crimes this man had committed were all real.

It was just that now wasn’t the time to expose this man’s crimes.

Only by returning to Lingxiao Sword Sect and completely unveiling this man’s true face before the sect elders could he receive his deserved punishment.

Song Shiyuan sheathed her sword edge, holding it reversed behind her back.

“Leave, Song Shixuan,” Song Shiyuan said. “I’d consider my sword dirtied by your blood.”

For a traitor like Song Shixuan who betrayed his own kind, no death would be enough.

But he absolutely could not die by Song Shiyuan’s sword.

No matter what, Song Shixuan had once been Song Shiyuan’s elder brother.

Song Shixuan’s face was dark as iron.

Although Song Shiyuan’s cultivation realm had already surpassed his by a margin, Song Shixuan wasn’t necessarily unable to defeat Song Shiyuan.

Sword cultivators excelled at cross-realm combat to begin with, not to mention Song Shixuan also possessed demon cultivation secret arts.

If it truly came to a life-and-death battle, Song Shiyuan couldn’t possibly be his match.

However, Song Shiyuan was his little sister. He had once cherished this cute and earnest little sister very much. He shouldn’t use those methods against his own sister.

But that fox demon had to die.

“Song Shiyuan… it shouldn’t have been like this between us,” Song Shixuan said.

“Our sibling bond has already ended.”

Song Shiyuan was already too lazy to bother with this defeated man.

She turned around to look at her beloved little fox demon.

The little fox demon was also looking at her with glistening eyes.

Song Shiyuan’s face showed a smile as she quickly walked toward her beloved little fox.

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“It’s over now, Axi.”

“I’ll take you away from here right now.”

The little fox demon nodded slightly at Song Shiyuan.

However, as Song Shiyuan walked toward Lu Zhuxin, Lu Zhuxin’s gaze caught sight of Song Shixuan behind her.

Song Shixuan held up his palm, head slightly lowered, looking at his palm.

In that palm, wisps of barely perceptible demonic qi were gathering.

The corners of Lu Zhuxin’s mouth curved into an arc.

She understood Song Shixuan and knew this bastard’s trump card.

When facing a powerful enemy he couldn’t defeat, he would use those shameful demon cultivation secret arts.

This situation was worth all the effort Lu Zhuxin had put into secretly raising Song Shiyuan’s cultivation after sealing it during this time.

As an Eighth Realm pure yin body fox demon, secretly boosting the cultivation of a Fourth Realm little sword cultivator who cultivated pure yang energy wasn’t difficult.

She just needed to be cuddled more.

If they engaged in yin-yang dual cultivation, Lu Zhuxin could show Little Shiyuan what rocket-speed leveling truly meant.

Enabling Song Shiyuan to defeat Song Shixuan was naturally Lu Zhuxin’s deliberate doing.

Moreover, Song Shiyuan now knew some of Song Shixuan’s secrets.

“So now…” Lu Zhuxin watched Song Shixuan’s movements, laughing silently in her heart.

“In this place where only Huang Shangshang is a witness…”

If he killed Huang Shangshang, no one would know what happened here.

“Song Shixuan, will you use your demon cultivation secret arts against your former little sister?”