"That's not it," the male cultivator's voice was weak, he hadn't said anything, truly nothing at all.
"Is it true?" Chu Lingwei released the male cultivator and stood up. "What's your name?"
The male cultivator slumped, Chu Lingwei knew everything. His voice was full of weariness, "Fang Jingchi."
"A good name."
Chu Lingwei took out a pill and handed it to him. "If you had confessed earlier, you wouldn't have suffered so much."
Fang Jingchi took the pill and swallowed it without thinking. If Chu Lingwei wanted to kill him, she wouldn't have wasted a pill.
As the pill entered his body, Fang Jingchi's injuries healed at a visible rate, and the suppression in this place also vanished.
"Thank you."
Fang Jingchi's voice choked up. The clan leader had said that Chu Lingwei was the saintess who could help their Phoenix clan be reborn; she was their hope.
"Is my mother alive?"
Chu Lingwei nodded and asked. Even his father wouldn't answer this question. Chu Lingwei wanted to know if his birth mother knew about all these things they had done.
"I don't know."
"Who was the person who sent you to follow me?" Chu Lingwei continued to ask.
Hearing this question, Fang Jingchi immediately knelt down. "I beg your pardon, but I cannot tell you."
These were all things Chu Lingwei had guessed. No matter how right her guesses were, without the clan leader's permission, he could not tell Chu Lingwei certain matters.
"Cultivate well here. I hope you can find a day to leave," Chu Lingwei said, leaving with the illusion cat.
"Weiwei, is he really a member of the Phoenix clan?" The illusion cat greatly admired Chu Lingwei; how could she guess these things?
"It's not hard to guess. That man in black knew my father. Wherever he appeared, it was a place for me to hone my skills. He didn't take my life, so there's only this possibility."
Chu Lingwei had already made a guess when the man in black appeared.
"Is that man in black also a member of the Phoenix clan?" The illusion cat pondered. "Why would he do that?"
"He probably wants me to grow up quickly," Chu Lingwei thought of her lost spiritual power, all absorbed into that sacred tree.
If that tree was harmful to her, she believed her senior brother would have stopped it, rather than channeling his spiritual power into her body to help her.
Since her senior brother was secretly helping her, it must be related to her background.
"Are Weiwei's clan members still suffering?" The illusion cat had personally seen that scene in Fang Jingchi's mind. Those people were living in great pain now.
"It should be about that," Chu Lingwei sighed softly. Everyone hoped she would grow up quickly. Chu Lingwei's gaze became increasingly firm.
"Weiwei, I will definitely cultivate diligently and help you save your clan members," the illusion cat nodded heavily.
Chu Lingwei gave a wry smile and rubbed his head. "We don't know what's really going on yet. Maybe we're overthinking it."
"It must be like this. I saw it," the illusion cat was very sure.
Chu Lingwei thought of the Phoenix clan's sacred tree stored in the Leng family. When her senior brother returned this time, she definitely had to go and see it for herself.
"Weiwei, where are we going now?"
"Don't forget, we still have one person to see." Chu Lingwei brought the illusion cat to the dungeon and looked at the male cultivator sitting in the cell. His injuries were not serious. Shui Yi was worried he would discover Fang Jingchi upstairs, so she had imprisoned them separately.
"Chu Lingwei, you're not dead?"
Seeing Chu Lingwei appear, a flash of joy quickly crossed his eyes. So many days of worry had almost driven him mad.
"Do you wish for me to die so much?"
Chu Lingwei waved her hand, and the dungeon opened. Even the suppression on him vanished.
"Where is this? You clearly..." Fang Jingyi felt incredulous. Chu Lingwei's sword had clearly cut his throat at the time.
"Why are you following me?" Chu Lingwei walked up to Fang Jingyi and stared at his face, noticing he bore some resemblance to Fang Jingchi.
"Of course, I want to kill you."
Fang Jingyi quickly adjusted his stance, summoned his spiritual artifact, and pointed it directly at Chu Lingwei.
Chu Lingwei: "..."
"What's your relationship with Fang Jingchi?" It seemed this Fang Jingyi hadn't suffered much.
"How did you..." Another flicker of surprise crossed Fang Jingyi's eyes. How did she know his elder brother's name? Impossible, his elder brother would never confess.
"I also know you are from the Phoenix clan," Chu Lingwei said, crossing her arms and staring at Fang Jingyi's ever-changing expression. "Not only that, but you want me to rescue your clan members."
"How did you know?" Fang Jingyi's heart began to churn like a stormy sea. Had his elder brother told Chu Lingwei all of this?
Chu Lingwei shook her head regretfully. "Unfortunately, Fang Jingchi couldn't withstand severe interrogation and confessed everything he knew before he died. So, why do you think you are here unharmed?"
Fang Jingyi stumbled back two steps, his whole body beginning to tremble. The clan leader had instructed them not to tell Chu Lingwei about the Phoenix clan's affairs so that she could grow up quickly.
"You should know my senior brother is Leng Xingzhi, the young master of the Leng family, right?" Chu Lingwei said slowly. "The Phoenix clan's sacred tree is currently in the Leng family."
"The Leng family is our enemy." Fang Jingyi naturally knew that Leng Xingzhi was Chu Lingwei's senior brother and that they had a good relationship, which made it even more imperative not to reveal the truth to her now.
Chu Lingwei: "..."
"Did the Leng family cause the Phoenix clan to be in this state?" Chu Lingwei's expression became solemn, her gaze even more obscure and deep. "Why did the Leng family do this?"
"They want our sacred tree," Fang Jingyi's eyes were filled with pain. "They are ambitious and want to use our Phoenix clan to help them break through to the Sovereign realm."
"The sacred tree can help them break through to the Sovereign realm?" The sacred tree had such a powerful function?
"As long as we don't agree, it's impossible."
The sacred tree embodied the will of their Phoenix clan. Even if they killed all the Phoenix clan members, the sacred tree would only wither and die.
"Where are the Phoenix clan members imprisoned? Do you know?" Chu Lingwei thought to herself, for ten thousand years no one had broken through to the Sovereign realm. For the sake of breaking through, these people would do anything.
Even if the rumor that the Phoenix clan's sacred tree could help someone break through to the Sovereign realm was just a rumor, people would still snatch the sacred tree.
This was the final madness of spiritual cultivators.
"They..." Fang Jingyi looked at Chu Lingwei blankly, not understanding the meaning of her words. "They all... The Leng family gave our Phoenix clan no chance to survive. Except for those not in the clan or on missions, all of them were by the Leng family... none survived."
Chu Lingwei's heart felt as if it had been struck by a heavy object. A pain spread through her heart, making it difficult to breathe.
"None survived..." Chu Lingwei murmured to herself. What was it that the illusion cat had seen?