After Defying the Villain’s Fate for Nine Lifetimes, the Heroines Turn Mad!

Chapter 125

In the grand hall of the Cloud Soaring Hall.

Xiao Hongyi sat high in the Peak Master’s seat, her beautiful eyes half-closed, yawning from time to time.

Jiang Chen stood by her side, seemingly lost in thought.

And in the center of the hall, Li Fadu stood upright, silent.

It had been several moments since Li Fadu’s arrival, and although he had tried to speak several times, he had held back each time, appearing extremely conflicted.

During this time, although other members of the Jiuyan Sect had come to the Cloud Soaring Hall to express their concern and consolation to Jiang Chen, Li Fadu alone had never set foot here.

There were two reasons for this.

One, even after a ‘great enlightenment’, the thought of Jiang Chen still involuntarily triggered his ‘righteous heart’, bringing about a strong sense of aversion.

Two, his conflict with Jiang Chen was deep, and he didn’t know how to reconcile for a while.

He had to take action!

Any further delay would only cause pain to loved ones and joy to enemies, a path led by demons!

“Jiang Chen…”

Taking a deep breath, Li Fadu finally spoke up.

“Call me hall master!” Jiang Chen interrupted sharply.

Li Fadu’s mouth twitched.

When he was in charge of the Hall of Enforcement, he had never dared to call himself ‘hall master’, but Jiang Chen said it so confidently…

Reminding himself constantly to ‘reform’ him, Li Fadu gritted his teeth and said, “Hall… hall master.”

“Why don’t you pay your respects when you see the hall master?” Jiang Chen began to put on airs again.

Li Fadu’s mouth twitched again, and he almost wanted to draw his sword!

Fortunately, reason restrained him, and he gritted his teeth to pay his respects.

“What brings the Law Enforcer Li here?” Jiang Chen asked with a smile.

Law Enforcer?! What kind of tacky title is this?! He’s already of age! Li Fadu couldn’t hold back his anger, which rushed to his forehead.

“You’d better keep that anger in check,” Xiao Hongyi, who had been looking lazy, said with a sudden chill in her voice.

Her words were like a bucket of cold water, instantly waking Li Fadu up.

Just now, he had almost lost control again!

Thankfully, Xiao Hongyi’s timely reminder prevented unthinkable consequences.

“Thank you for the reminder, Ninth Peak’s master,” Li Fadu said while bowing deeply with a humble attitude.

Xiao Hongyi was taken aback.

Was this the same Li Fadu who was known for his stern impartiality, always wearing a stern face and never giving face to anyone?

If it weren’t for his familiar face, she would have doubted she had recognized the wrong person!

Jiang Chen said the whole Jiuyan Sect was almost insane, and she didn’t believe it, but now it seemed…

At least this Li Fadu was definitely not normal!

‘Could it be that the Jiuyan Sect is facing retribution?’ she wondered to herself.

Jiang Lianyue, Lin Mubai, Qingning, and others from the Jiuyan Sect had gone mad one after another.

Could it be…

She suddenly felt a shock in her heart and looked at Li Fadu with deep meaning, “Elder Li, have you recently experienced… hallucinations?”

“Not at all!”

Li Fadu replied instantly, “Thank you for your concern, Ninth Peak’s master. Everything is normal.”

It’s retribution indeed!

Hearing this, Xiao Hongyi completely lost interest and became lazy again.

Li Fadu glanced at her, feeling somewhat surprised.

The last time Jiang Chen was captured for questioning, Xiao Hongyi went crazy, completely lawless and utterly insane!

But looking at her today, aside from the earlier impulse to kill him, her speech and logic seemed relatively normal.

But then he thought about it.

The mad ones like Jiang Lianyue and the others seemed to behave normally on a daily basis, so he ignore it.

“Jiang… hall master! I have come to expose a conspiracy of the Ancient Pill Tower!” Li Fadu stated his purpose.

“…a conspiracy?” Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes.

“Indeed.”

Li Fadu took out the poisonous pill he had just obtained and explained, “This pill comes from the Ancient Pill Tower, named Seven Abyss Pill! If a Core Formation cultivator takes it, they will be devoured by a hundred ghosts, consuming their heart and flesh, turning them into an idiot.”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Hongyi’s eyes lit up, and she straightened her posture.

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, vaguely guessing something.

Then, Li Fadu took a deep breath, his expression even more serious, “The Ancient Pill Tower wants to use me to poison the hall master! Such an act is despicable, and I have come to expose it!”

Jiang Chen was speechless.

Expose?

A righteous person coming to him, a villain, to expose his own ally?

This Li Fadu’s madness is quite interesting!

Xiao Hongyi’s eyes turned cold, and phoenix fire emerged around her, saying, “The Ancient Pill Tower? I’ll go destroy the Ancient Pill Tower first!”

“Ah?” Li Fadu was stunned.

Destroy the Ancient Pill Tower?

The Ancient Pill Tower was not something Xiao Hongyi could destroy alone.

But if Xiao Hongyi went, could the Supreme Elders ignore it? What about the Old Ancestor who had just entered the jade coffin?

A slight misstep could lead to a great war between the righteous sects!

“Ninth Peak’s master, you must not!”

Li Fadu hurriedly intervened, “Although the Ancient Pill Tower’s cultivation and strength are not as great as our Jiuyan Sect, they have good relations with other righteous sects. Any carelessness could lead to the destruction of our sect!”

“Destruction of the sect?” Xiao Hongyi asked coldly.

“Indeed!” Li Fadu nodded.

“The Jiuyan Sect being destroyed?” Xiao Hongyi asked again.

“It’s not impossible,” Li Fadu nodded again.

“What does it have to do with me?”

Li Fadu was speechless.

At this moment, he was certain. Compared to Jiang Lianyue and the others, Xiao Hongyi was even more recklessly insane!

This made him sigh.

Look, this is what happens when the demonic seed completely erupts! It must serve as his warning!

Helplessly, Li Fadu turned his gaze to Jiang Chen.

“Master, there’s no need to be angry,” Jiang Chen said with a sneer.

“That Ancient Pill Tower is just a bunch of cowards, only daring to do little things behind the scenes, not worth worrying about.”

“Hmm.”

After a brief response, Xiao Hongyi sat down again, her expression returning to normal.

Li Fadu let out a sigh of relief.

He had thought that Jiang Chen would strongly encourage Xiao Hongyi to do this, and he was prepared to stop her at the cost of his life.

Who knew that Jiang Chen would stop her as well…

This made him reflect deeply, realizing that he had greatly misunderstood Jiang Chen!

What Li Fadu didn’t know was Jiang Chen simply didn’t want Xiao Hongyi to take the risk.

Moreover, aside from the fact that he could use the Ancient Pill Tower as a tool to farm system rewards, he knew better than anyone that the Ancient Pill Tower was indeed not easy to destroy.

A pill refiner was, after all, a special profession.

Perhaps they were not very powerful in their own right, but their vast network of relationships was not to be underestimated.

If they were to be destroyed, it had to be done carefully and gradually.

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became silent, and the three of them stopped talking.

Li Fadu pondered to himself, feeling that this was not enough to ‘enlighten’, at most it was just a denunciation.

To achieve the goal of ‘enlightenment and reformation’, he needed to do something drastic!

With this thought, his expression became even more serious, and he blurted out, “If the hall master is willing to stop doing evil from now on, then I… I will take this Seven Abyss Pill!”

“… Are you sick in the head?”

After a brief moment of astonishment, Jiang Chen cursed outright.

A cultivator turning into an idiot was no different from being dead.

He had guessed that Li Fadu was not normal, but he didn’t expect it to be to such an extreme!

To commit suicide at the slightest disagreement, he was almost caught up with Lin Mubai!

“In my life, I, Li Fadu, have enforced the law impartially, thinking I had no regrets. Yet, I never thought that it was precisely this that led to my obsession. I feel guilty for the Sect Master’s cultivation and the trust of the sect,” Li Fadu said with his eyes dimming and his tone low.

Suddenly, he looked up fiercely, his voice resounding firmly, “Jiang Chen, if my life can transform you and lead you to righteousness and save the sect from danger! Then what do I have to fear in death?!”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chen was stunned.

He took a long, hard look at Li Fadu and sighed, “… Li Fadu, I misunderstood you.”

“Oh? Has the hall master been moved by me?” Li Fadu was overjoyed.

“No,” Jiang Chen shook his head.

“I once said you were a spy for the demonic path, which was indeed a misunderstanding! Now I realize that you are actually a spy for the Buddha Temple! Come clean, which bald monk from the Buddha Temple did you take as your master?!”

“…”

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