Qi Yu was stunned by his question, a flicker of guilt crossing her eyes again. But this was something she truly couldn't say, so after the guilt, she became confident again:
"Hey, I'm really not hiding anything from you. If you don't believe me, use the Yan Zhen Mirror. This thing can test truth and falsehood; one test will tell."
Si Qing looked at her earnest face and, half-believing, did as she said.
In the end, nothing was detected.
This left Si Qing speechless.
Qi Yu was incredibly smug, her dragon tail almost reaching for the heavens.
"Alright, it was wrong of me to suspect you," Si Qing sighed. Although everything had been proven, a sense of unease lingered in his heart, refusing to dissipate.
Qi Yu's face was beaming with a triumphant smile, but in reality, the more she thought about it, the more bitter she felt.
She had only had a fleeting thought in that direction, and Si Qing was already so distraught.
If she were to truly make a choice, what would Si Qing do?
Meanwhile, on the Thirteenth Heaven.
Fa Ze grabbed Tian Dao by the collar, her voice filled with disbelief. "Are you insane? Damn it, the power accumulated from curses was meant to keep you existing longer, but you've given more than half of it to Qi Yu!"
"What benefit did Qi Yu give you? Is it worth doing this!"
Fa Ze was hysterical.
Tian Dao looked at Fa Ze, who was grabbing his collar and spewing curses, and stopped her with a single sentence: "Qi Yu is the new Heavenly Dao!"
Fa Ze froze instantly.
She let go, wiped her face, and for a moment, didn't know what to say. "You, are you sure?"
"She already has the purple energy of the new Heavenly Dao," Tian Dao frowned deeply. "If you hadn't cast curses so recklessly, she would have already ascended to become the new Heavenly Dao and handed over to me. The new Fa Ze shouldn't have awakened yet, but once Qi Yu fully awakens, he will appear soon."
"Then what have you done? Why did you send her power? Shouldn't you have made her tainted with curses at this time?" After hearing Tian Dao's words, Fa Ze's thoughts grew increasingly disturbed, and her expression quickly became even more ferocious than before. "You know Qi Yu is the future Heavenly Dao, and you still sent her power? That was all power I painstakingly accumulated after personally issuing curses. Without that power, you would have disappeared sooner or later."
"What do you mean by this?! Why did you use the power I accumulated to give to someone else?!"
"Fa Ze, don't you understand? The power accumulated solely through curses cannot keep me as the Heavenly Dao," Tian Dao said, sweeping his hair back to reveal his forehead.
The Heavenly Dao mark on his forehead had already vanished by more than half, leaving only a faint shadow.
The Fa Ze mark on Fa Ze's forehead had disappeared even earlier than his.
Tian Dao held Fa Ze's hand, his voice heavy with sorrow and sincerity. "No matter how much power there is, it cannot stop the Heavenly Dao mark from fading. One day, when this mark completely disappears, neither of us will be able to remain on the Thirteenth Heaven."
These words struck Fa Ze's heart like a thunderbolt.
She heard him speak the truth. The reason they could both still firmly occupy the Thirteenth Heaven was primarily because the Heavenly Dao mark on Tian Dao's forehead had not yet completely vanished.
Therefore, they still had the right to stay, but one day, if this mark completely disappeared, the Thirteenth Heaven would choose a new master. In that case, the fate of both of them would be to fall into the darkest, most desperate abyss of hell.
"Then what should we do? The curses can't stop either, so what should I do now? And, even if having more power can't keep you as the Heavenly Dao, you shouldn't have sent all that accumulated power to the new Heavenly Dao!" Fa Ze's eyes were bloodshot, bordering on madness. "You don't actually think that by giving all this power to Qi Yu, the new Heavenly Dao, and saying some gentle, pleasant words, she will be able to pull us out of the abyss of hell when she fully awakens?!"
Tian Dao remained silent, because that was indeed what he thought.
Fa Ze let go of his hand, laughing and crying as if she had gone mad. After a while, she stood up and said, "This cannot go on. The power has been given, and it cannot be taken back, but I cannot let Qi Yu, this new Heavenly Dao, continue to live."
Tian Dao was startled, and a sense of unease arose in his heart for no reason. "Fa Ze, what are you going to do?" httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
"I want to continue to exist in this world. I cannot die, I cannot disappear. I will not let the new Heavenly Dao be officially born," faint demonic energy emanated from Fa Ze. "I will find a way to kill Qi Yu. As long as she dies, the new Heavenly Dao cannot be born, and the new Fa Ze cannot be born. This way, I can continue to exist in this world."
"You're completely insane!" Tian Dao finally realized that Fa Ze intended to increase the power of the curses. He quickly grabbed her hand. "Don't you understand? Even if the new Heavenly Dao is not born and the world falls into chaos, you and I will not escape falling into hell!"
"How can we not escape?!" Fa Ze flung Tian Dao's hand away. "As long as Qi Yu dies and no new Heavenly Dao appears, the Three Realms will fall into chaos. At that time, if we both become demons, won't we easily rule the Three Realms?!"
Hearing Fa Ze utter the words "become demons," Tian Dao's heart tightened.
Only then did he finally realize that something was seriously wrong.
The influence of the Blood Demon Sha possessing him on Fa Ze was far more severe than he had imagined.
Fa Ze was now filled with malice and was gradually demonizing.
If this was not stopped, she would likely become even more thoroughly demonized.
However.
Thinking that the only way to stop Fa Ze from further demonizing was to confess to the Three Realms that he had been possessed by the Blood Demon Sha, and to confess their crimes, Tian Dao hesitated again.
If he truly confessed this to the Three Realms, the consequences would be more terrifying than falling into hell.
With this thought, Tian Dao looked at Fa Ze, his heart wavering slightly between dignity and the Three Realms. In the end, he slowly let go of his hand.