roccoschili Chapter 873 - 873 125 Today's Fruit
Chapter 873 - 873 125 Today's Fruit
873: Chapter 125: Today’s Fruit 873: Chapter 125: Today’s Fruit Jiang Wang’s accusation shocked everyone present.Granny Bizhu, who had interrogated Hai Jingping to confess Zhu Bijing’s great crime, was in fact the one who led Zhu Bijing astray?
“Have you lost your mind?
Talking nonsense like this!” Granny Bizhu was also extremely angry, “I’ve no children of my own and have always treated Su Yao and Biqiong as my own daughters.
Who on Huai Island doesn’t know that?
I raised them with my own hands, finding time to personally teach them Dao Technique, no matter how busy I was.
Would I harm them?”
“Su Yao met with misfortune and was lost in the Heavenly Abode Secret Land.
Biqiong is all that’s left!”
She gave a mournful laugh, pointed at Jiang Wang, and then at Hai Jingping, “But you, you both!”
Her expression was fierce, “People like you can’t stand to see others being good and can’t stand to see this old woman have a peaceful life.
Biqiong, so innocent, but you led her down the astray path, which resulted in today’s consequences!”
She cried and laughed, “The Sect’s rules are firm, and I cannot defy them.
This old woman personally crippled her and sent her to the prison of the sea herself.
My heart is completely shattered!”
With a resentful gaze, she looked at Jiang Wang and Hai Jingping, “I wish I could tear your flesh and drink your blood alive.
I swear to never rest until I die in this life, and even in the next, I will be your enemy!”
To anyone watching, she seemed to be revealing her true feelings.
Except for the few people who truly knew Jiang Wang, most of the crowd started looking at him with disfavor.
At that moment, Jiang Wang suddenly remembered the night at Camel Hump Mountain.
Back then, Hai Zongming had also put on a performance about missing his deceased wife to deceive him out of hiding, moving to the core.
These two people are indeed worthy adversaries.
But compared to Granny Bizhu’s current display of emotion, it still seemed somewhat lacking.
And at this time, she did not forget to continue dragging Hai Jingping down with her.
Such actions betrayed a greed that ran deep in her bones.
She wanted to grab everything she could, to plunder everything within her reach.
Jiang Wang seemed to see a gaping maw behind her, and beyond the crossed sharp teeth lay an abyss that could never be filled.
“Heh,” Jiang Wang shook his head.
He was done playing games with this old hypocrite; no matter how she tried to appeal for sympathy, he spoke in an unusually cold tone, “I would like to ask Chongguang Zhenren, as well as all friends in Diao Hai Building who know Zhu Bijing, based on what did Zhu Bijing herself know about Hai Zongming’s movements?
How could she sense Hai Zongming’s intent to kill and know that he was after me?
Could a naive young girl like Zhu Bijing really know such confidential matters?”
“So I say, there is a traitor among us!” Granny Bizhu immediately said, “Perhaps it’s your people of Qi, trying to eliminate the future threat to your prodigy.
Or someone within Diao Hai Building…”
She glared resentfully at Hai Jingping, “Trying to get rid of those who are different!”
Hai Jingping, remembering the orders of Chongguang Zhenren not to escalate the conflict, held back his patience again and again, but finally, he couldn’t restrain himself and coldly said, “Why couldn’t that traitor be you?”
“Ha!” Granny Bizhu had been waiting for that remark and immediately said with emphasis, “Bijing is right here, why don’t you ask her yourself!”
She walked slowly to the nearly breathless Zhu Bijing, squatting down and gently lifting her face, her voice softening, “Good child, tell everyone.
Did I tell you to go and send the message, to harm Elder Hai Zongming?”
At this moment, Zhu Bijing was so weak that she could hardly open her eyes, but at the corners of her eyes…
blood flowed out.
The tears had dried up, and now there was blood.
She was a person prone to tears.
Ever since the death of her sister Zhu Suyao, she had washed her face with tears night after night.
How could she bear the bitterness, how could she bear the agony of being completely stripped of her cultivation?
And above all, she couldn’t bear…
the fact that Granny Bizhu wanted her dead.
With tears of blood streaming down her face, filled with immense sorrow, she still struggled to say, “It was me…
on my own.”
“Good child…” Granny Bizhu used her trembling, withered palm to wipe away the blood tears and cried out, “Even in such a time, you still want to cover for that heartless man.”
A single stone stirred up a thousand ripples.
The gazes of those present fell onto Jiang Wang; suddenly, they shifted.
Why had Jiang Wang been so desperate to save Zhu Bijing?
Why hadn’t Zhu Bijing given up any “accomplices”?
Everything seemed to have an explanation now.
And Granny Bizhu, seizing the moment when the crowd was in an uproar, promptly embraced Zhu Bijing, blocking her feeble attempt to shake her head.
“You’re too cruel.”
Jiang Wang’s hand grasping his sword turned pale at the knuckles; he almost couldn’t resist the impulse to draw his sword, but he managed to hold back, “At a time like this, you still want to use her.
How can you bear to use her!”
Granny Bizhu held Zhu Bijing tight and abruptly turned back, “You heartless scoundrel of the Jiang surname!
If you still hold any of that old affection, then stop making her suffer and grant her a quick end!”
She was using Zhu Bijing’s ordeal to force Jiang Wang into submission.
In her eyes, young people caught in love were often fools—unspeakably foolish, pitifully so.
Once Jiang Wang could no longer bear Zhu Bijing’s torment, he would fall into her trap.
“A person who truly cares for her only wants her to live,” Jiang Wang gritted out, refusing to look at Zhu Bijing and instead addressing the main seat at the End of the World Platform, “I believe everyone here can see that Fellow Daoist Zhu Bijing is such an innocent and kind-hearted person.
Even in these circumstances, she would not lie.”
He kept control of his emotions, trying to make his speech more structured, clearer, “Everyone present is wise.
Consider this—if you wanted to make this silly girl do something, would you need to command her directly?
Just by thoroughly understanding her character and telling her a piece of information you wanted her to know, she would take the initiative to do it.
And who, exactly, knows her the best?”
“I raised her for twenty years!
Did I do that just to send her to her death?” Granny Bizhu finally released Zhu Bijing, turning back to face Jiang Wang, her voice choked with sobs, “She was safe and happy for twenty years, and yet after knowing Biqiong for such a short time, you’ve brought her to this point!”
Jiang Wang didn’t bother with her nonsense and directly said to Chongguang Zhenren, “I would like to invite a few friends up to testify on my behalf.”
He did not vie with the old woman for the sympathy of the observers, for in front of evidence, such sympathy would not stand.
Of course, Granny Bizhu would not agree, “Not just anyone is allowed on the End of the World Platform!”
Jiang Wang said coldly, “My friend’s family name is Zhongxuan, with a single name, Sheng.
He’s the direct descendant of the Zhong Xuan Family, the primary successor to the position of Family Head.
The Zhong Xuan Family owns two islands at sea, Eternal Winter and Chongjia!
I wonder if that’s qualified enough?”
Chongguang Zhenren showed no joy or anger, simply saying, “Announce them.”
“Furthermore,” Jiang Wang continued, “I would also like to invite the Sect Leader of the Five Immortal Sect of Youxia Island, Xu Zhilan, and the elder Fan Qingqing!”
Zhongxuan Sheng had not appeared because he had been negotiating with the Five Immortal Sect in secret.
After all, the Five Immortal Sect had relied on Granny Bizhu for many years, and making a decision to sever and stand in opposition was not easy.
But Zhongxuan Sheng finally managed to settle all the conditions before the Sea Sacrifice Ceremony, helping them make their decision.
And today, using Granny Bizhu’s tight grip on her subordinate forces, he would escort her on her way!
Granny Bizhu was like one struck by lightning, visibly stunned.
Her always full and vigorous emotions were clearly taken aback.
For someone who had weathered many storms, such a turn of events was almost unthinkable.
Chongguang Zhenren sighed inwardly, how could he not know that Elder Bizhu had been caught in a vulnerable spot?
However, outwardly he simply said indifferently, “Let whoever has witness testimony come up then.”
“Why trouble Chong Zhenren with a simple ‘invite’?”
This voice was somewhat deep.
As the voice fell on the End of the World Platform, the man who approached had features that were regular but stern, not prone to idle chatter.
Clad in a simple black attire, his hands empty, he appeared unremarkable.
But the corpulent Zhongxuan Sheng, the heavily armored Shisi, as well as the Sect Leader of the Five Immortal Sect, Xu Zhilan, and the elder Fan Qingqing, all stood behind him.
Because he was the fourth son of the Marquis of Bowang, the lord of Eternal Winter Island, Zhongxuan Minghe!