Chapter 137 The Truth

The scattered chains fell to the ground.

Those chains seemed to be a magical treasure.

However, at this moment, they had become a broken treasure.

Chen Xiao had cut them apart with a single sword.

In an instant, everyone was stunned.

The three sect leaders were stunned, Bai Di was stunned, and most importantly, the old immortal was stunned.

He froze in place, ceasing all attacks, his eyes gradually recovering a trace of brilliance from their dullness.

Finally, they regained their clarity!

Seeing this scene, everyone was overjoyed, because they knew exactly what it meant.

It meant that the old immortal's mind had recovered, and he was no longer enslaved and controlled by Bai Di!

Bai Di stared at the old immortal, feeling a chill run down his spine.

The reason he could control the old immortal was not because his strength was greater.

It was only because he had used schemes and the Fettering Divine Chains, the magical treasure that Chen Xiao had just severed, that he was able to control the old immortal.

But now, facing the old immortal who had regained his senses, he was like a beastmaster facing an uncontrollable beast!

He felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, like a fishbone stuck in his throat...

The old immortal glared fiercely at Bai Di, finally just snorting angrily.

"Hmph!"

He snorted, but he didn't attack Bai Di.

It was unknown whether it was because he was afraid of Bai Di having other magical treasures, or because he felt it was a shameful thing to be enslaved by mere mortals for so many years.

In the end, he simply cupped his fist towards Chen Xiao, then transformed into a stream of light, soared into the sky, and soon disappeared without a trace.

He...he just left like that?

The three sect leaders exchanged glances, somewhat surprised, but not entirely so.

As for Bai Di, he temporarily breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately became nervous again...no, not nervous, but desperate.

Because now he had to face not only the three sect leaders, but also Chen Xiao who possessed the Seven Gods.

Picking any one of them would be enough to give him a hard time, let alone them standing on a united front now.

For Bai Di, the tide had turned, and the current situation was a dead end for him.

"Hehe, I really didn't expect that I would lose to you in the end."

Bai Di pretended to be nonchalant, "You are indeed my greatest creation. Losing to you, I have no regrets..."

Bang!

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Xiao descended from the sky and kicked him in the face, sending him tumbling and crawling like a stray dog.

"I warned you a long time ago, don't you fucking say I'm your creation!"

Chen Xiao said coldly.

"Okay, okay, I won't say it!"

It is said that a wise man submits to circumstances. If viewed from this perspective, Bai Di was a well-deserved wise man.

When it was time to be a coward, he really was a coward.

Of course, even if he admitted defeat, he couldn't escape death.

Bai Di also realized this, and he said with a wry smile: "Before you kill me, can I ask you a question?"

"Say what you have to say, and get to the point!"

Chen Xiao said contemptuously.

"How did you discover that the key to breaking the situation was on the Fettering Divine Chains?"

Bai Di asked.

"Because I have eyes."

Chen Xiao said flatly.

At the same time, the faces of the three sect leaders darkened...so only you have eyes, and we don't, right?

"So your initial goal was the Fettering Divine Chains. There's still one thing I don't understand. Your Yitian Sword is obviously more powerful than the God-Slaying Sword, so why did you choose the God-Slaying Sword instead of the Yitian Sword?"

Bai Di was indeed very knowledgeable about Chen Xiao, and he knew all his magical treasures like the back of his hand.

"To confuse you, you idiot!"

Chen Xiao snorted and said, "If I wasn't holding the God-Slaying Sword, pretending to chop the old immortal, would you have let me pass? Only when you thought I was courting death did I have a chance!"

Bai Di was, after all, a strong man from the ancient times. If he had been fully vigilant against Chen Xiao, even if Chen Xiao could succeed, it definitely wouldn't have been so easy.

"I see, I see. I still underestimated you! Kid, your performance today has really impressed me..."

Before Bai Di could finish speaking, Chen Xiao kicked him again.

"Too much of a father figure, stop acting like my dad in front of me!"

Chen Xiao said impatiently.

Bai Di gave a sheepish smile. Physical harm was nothing to him. More of it was mental, the pain of utter defeat.

His experience was hard for anyone to accept.

After enduring for a long time and painstakingly planning for hundreds of years, the result was that he was too clever for his own good, and defeated by someone he created.

The feeling was hard to describe in words.

If he had to describe it, Bai Di could only think of one sentence.

A miss is as good as a mile!

"Maybe I was wrong from the beginning. How could I be capable of wanting to use you...hehe..."

Bai Di smiled self-deprecatingly.

Chen Xiao caught a trace of something wrong in his words and immediately asked quietly: "What do you mean by that? It seems like you haven't told me something?"

"Hehehe, of course... this matter concerns your true identity, or rather, your true origin!"

Bai Di said with a sinister smile, "The reason I could create you was purely by chance, and your origin is quite something. Actually, you are..."

"What am I?"

Chen Xiao felt that he was about to get close to the truth of the matter.

But Bai Di smiled again: "I'm not telling you!"

"You motherfucker!"

Chen Xiao was furious and was about to raise his foot to kick Bai Di again.

But this time, before he could kick Bai Di, Bai Di's body swelled up like a balloon.

"What's going on? What's wrong with my body..."

Bai Di panicked, looking at his changes with fear in his eyes.

"I was wrong, please, don't kill me, I shouldn't have mentioned these things to him."

"Please spare me, I promise, I will never reveal any news!"

Bai Di seemed to have seen something terrible, begging for mercy desperately, and constantly making promises.

However, this did not stop his body from continuing to swell!

At this time, he had swelled from his original height of about 1.7 meters to nearly three meters.

His whole person had turned into a balloon! A real balloon!

"You're about to die, why don't you hurry up and tell me the news?"

Chen Xiao said anxiously.

"No, I'm not going to die... my end is a hundred times more miserable than death, no, a thousand times, ten thousand times, a hundred million times... ah..."

Bang!

In Bai Di's painful wailing, his body, along with his primordial spirit, exploded into a pile of slag and fell into nothingness.

Chen Xiao gritted his teeth: "You *malegebi*, you have to make me miserable even when you're dying, right?"

Most of the anger in Chen Xiao's life had been given to this person, whether he was Chen Sihai, Lin Batian, or Bai Di... or even the person who created him.

"What he said just now seems to have a deeper meaning. He said your origin is quite something... and just now his death, it seems like there's some particularly terrifying figure..."

Ziwei sect leader came to Chen Xiao's side. Seeing that Chen Xiao was very angry, she wanted to say a few words of comfort, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she became incoherent.

Because her mind was also full of mysteries, and she was very confused.

In the end, it turned into a sigh: "Sigh, we'll always figure these things out, won't we?"

Chen Xiao had calmed down and smiled slightly, saying: "That's good. At least I know I'm getting closer and closer to the truth. Let's not worry about this for now. Let's talk about the next thing."

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Duan Yanzhuo and Yun Lan.

The things he was going to talk about next were mainly related to them.

"Why are you looking at us like that?"

Duan Yanzhuo asked with a puzzled expression.

"You kid wouldn't be planning something bad against us, would you? I'm warning you not to mess around. With your strength, you're not worthy of being an enemy of the entire Hidden Immortal World!"

Although he said that, the master Duan Yanzhuo was able to say this, which already meant that he had a considerable recognition of Chen Xiao's strength.

Otherwise, he would have said, "I'll tear off your head."

Yun Lan didn't speak, but the look in her eyes when she looked at Chen Xiao was full of vigilance.

Chen Xiao smiled: "You two don't need to be nervous. The thing I want to discuss with you, I've mentioned before... Let's work together!"

"Work together with you? Do what?"

Duan Yanzhuo seemed to not have reacted, but it was more like he was asking knowingly.

"What else can we do? Overthrow the Heavenly Dao!"

Chen Xiao said loudly.

"Kid, you can't say things like that randomly. We'll just pretend we didn't hear it. You should leave the Hidden Immortal World quickly. Anyway, you've already achieved your goal. The God-Slaying Sword is already in your hands. From now on, we'll mind our own business. We'll take our own path, and you can cross your own single-plank bridge, understand?"

Duan Yanzhuo said excitedly.

"Overthrow the Heavenly Dao, this kid, doesn't he know who he is? It's fine if he wants to die, but why does he have to drag us along..."

Duan Yanzhuo muttered, sounding less like he was trying to persuade Chen Xiao, and more like he was trying to persuade himself.

"Senior Brother Duan, how long are you going to deceive yourself?"

Ziwei sect leader shook her head and said, "Five hundred years, and you still don't dare to face your heart?"

"What don't I dare? What don't I dare? I'm telling you, there's nothing in this world that I don't dare to do!"

Duan Yanzhuo retorted loudly, "It's just that you want me to betray my master and grandmaster, and I can't do it!"

"But they betrayed us first!"

Ziwei sect leader argued, "No matter how high-sounding the words are used to package it, it's still an undeniable fact, isn't it?"

"It's not like that, Junior Sister Ziwei, you don't understand, it's not like that. Master and the others are also doing it for our own good."

Duan Yanzhuo murmured, "Master said, let us wait in the Hidden Immortal World for five hundred years. Once the five hundred years are up, we can ascend to the Celestial World with them. In the future, we'll be cultivators in the Celestial World, and we'll be celestial immortals. Those disciples and grandchildren who want to unite with the Dao have to get our approval..."

Hearing this, Ziwei sect leader shouted: "Where are there any disciples and grandchildren? This time, they're swallowing the entire Nine Provinces, and that includes all your disciples and grandchildren. How long are you going to pretend to be confused?"