You Betrayed the Sect, So Why Regret It Now? - Chapter 1:
Chapter 1: Rebirth – Facing Doubt, How to Break the Situation?
Qilin Holy Hall.
“You dog! You stole my Thunderfire Cauldron and still refuse to admit it! The evidence is irrefutable now, yet you still dare to deny it? Master, I request your judgment!”
Li Chen raised his head and looked around. All the faces surrounding him were familiar.
Zhao Qiyue sat atop the high seat in the holy hall, her expression gloomy. “Li Chen, speak. Did you steal the Thunderfire Cauldron?”
Li Chen remained silent. His mind was flooded with memories of his past life.
At five years old, he had been brought into the Qilin Holy Land by his master and was accepted as Zhao Qiyue’s personal disciple. At six, he reached the Foundation Establishment Realm. At nine, he condensed a Golden Core and broke through to the Golden Core Realm, becoming the youngest Golden Core disciple in the history of the Qilin Holy Land. He inherited the Qilin legacy, possessed Qilin bloodline, and was named the Holy Son of Qilin.
He was known as a once-in-ten-thousand-years genius, shaking the entire Five Great Holy Lands. In just three years, he shattered the Golden Core Realm and achieved the Nascent Soul Realm, becoming the youngest Nascent Soul cultivator across all five holy lands. To achieve the Nascent Soul Realm before the age of fifty was already a rare miracle, but he had done it in just three years—at the age of twelve.
Afterward, he cultivated for ten more years and stepped into the Soul Formation Realm, eliminating demons for the Qilin Holy Land and establishing his dominance across the world. Twenty years later, he broke into the Void Refinement Realm. Fifty years later, he reached the Celestial Fusion Realm. After a hundred years of cultivation, he attained the Great Ascension Realm. Even the Patriarch of the Qilin Holy Land had taken three hundred years to reach the Great Ascension Realm, yet Li Chen accomplished it in just a century. Not even the Qilin Patriarch could compare.
He continued to break through, and in another ninety-nine years, reached the peak of the Great Ascension Realm. At that time, his reputation was unmatched, and the Holy Sons of the other Four Holy Lands could only look up to him.
The Four Holy Lands all praised him and declared that Li Chen was the only one capable of enduring the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation and becoming the Qilin Immortal.
Fifty years later, the Demonic Woman Meng Huanxiang of the Myriad Demons Sect led an army of one hundred thousand demons to invade the Qilin Holy Land, pushing it to the brink of destruction. Li Chen turned the tide by himself, wielding a longsword and fighting against the demon army alone. He slaughtered for three days and three nights, turning rivers into blood, forcing the Myriad Demons army to flee back to their continent. Only the Demonic Woman Meng Huanxiang remained.
Li Chen then engaged in a duel with Meng Huanxiang for ten days and ten nights. In the end, he managed to suppress her. But somehow, Meng Huanxiang used a mysterious technique that caused Li Chen’s cultivation to collapse, dropping him all the way down to the 1st stage Qi Refining Realm.
In just ten short years, Li Chen tried every method possible, but he could not rebuild his Foundation Establishment Realm.
Later, Qin Fan joined the Qilin Holy Land and was accepted by Zhao Qiyue as her personal disciple. He received her affection and the love of six Junior Sisters.
Meanwhile, Li Chen became the abandoned one. All of his treasure artifacts, pills, and even his cultivation chamber were taken and given to Qin Fan.
Thus began his nightmare.
In the third year, his title of Holy Son was stripped, and he was demoted to an elite disciple. In the fifth year, after angering Zhao Qiyue, he was degraded to an inner sect disciple. By the seventh year, accused of theft, he was cast down again as an outer sect disciple and faced endless hardships. In the tenth year, he was slain by Qin Fan with a single sword strike—all because Li Chen had looked at him a moment too long in the crowd.
In ten short years, he had fallen from the lofty position of Holy Son to a wretched outcast, living like a dog.
Zhao Qiyue, seated in the holy hall, grew more furious at Li Chen’s silence. “Li Chen, I’ll give you one last chance. Did you or did you not steal the Thunderfire Cauldron?”
“You useless thing. As the eldest Senior Brother, instead of focusing on cultivation, you resort to theft? I truly misjudged you.”
“You stole it, and still refuse to confess?”
Zhao Qiyue slammed her hand on the armrest in rage, her face filled with fury, radiating overwhelming authority. The crowd below was visibly shaken.
Li Chen looked up at Zhao Qiyue, his lips curling into a bitter smile. Was this really the master who once brought him into the sect?
She used to treat him with such care, but now that he had lost his cultivation, she despised him completely.
Had she forgotten? When the demon race besieged the Qilin Holy Land, it was he who stood alone with a sword and fought for ten days and nights to turn the tide, suppressing the Demonic Woman. Had she forgotten that if not for him, there would be no present-day Qilin Holy Land?
Now, his cultivation was crippled, he was repeatedly demoted, and they even falsely accused him of theft.
In the end, he was killed by Qin Fan with a single sword.
In that final moment, Li Chen even saw his master and Junior Sisters smiling coldly at him.
Li Chen felt complete despair.
Such a master.
Such Junior Sisters.
Were they still worth protecting?
Li Chen took a deep breath and cursed himself internally for being a fool.
In his previous life, he lived for the Holy Land, for his master, and for his Junior Sisters.
But in this life…
He would live for himself.
Zhao Qiyue noticed Li Chen smiling and shouted angrily, “You wretch, you still have the nerve to smile? How many times have I taught you to be upright and honorable? Have you forgotten all of it?”
“Someone! Go search Li Chen’s residence immediately. See if he stole anything else!”
A disciple from the inner sect immediately obeyed and left.
Soon after, Law Enforcement disciple Zhang Fei returned, respectfully reporting, “Reporting to Sect Master, these were found in Li Chen’s quarters.”
A few treasure artifacts and an iron box were laid out.
Li Chen glanced at them indifferently. Everything was playing out exactly the same as before his rebirth.
Zhao Qiyue coldly said, “Good, very good. The Azure Cloud Sword belongs to your Third Junior Sister. The Overlord Spear belongs to your Fourth Junior Sister.”
With a wave of her hand, the box flew to her and opened. Inside were a few red pills.
She spoke frostily, “These are the Firecloud Pills I gave to Junior Brother Qin Fan, meant to raise his cultivation. And you dared steal even these?”
“Azure Cloud Sword?” Third Junior Sister Ning Ningyun looked at the sword and gasped, then snarled viciously, “That’s the one I gave to Junior Brother Qin Fan! You dog, you deserve to die for stealing from him!”
Fourth Junior Sister Ying Zihan shouted angrily, “Li Chen, you’re actually jealous of the treasures we gave our Junior Brother and dared to steal from him? You’re inhuman!”
Facing everyone’s accusations, Li Chen had nothing to say.
Those who wish to condemn someone will always find a reason.
Now, he was only at the 1st stage Qi Refining Realm. Even if he died here, there was nothing he could say.
Qin Fan stepped forward, face filled with guilt, and respectfully said, “Master… Senior Brother must’ve had no other choice. He just wanted to restore his cultivation. I beg you to forgive him.”
Li Chen glanced at him and sneered inwardly.
In the past, he had thought this Junior Brother was kind. But after reliving everything, he knew—Qin Fan was the true culprit.
The other Junior Sisters were all accomplices, and Zhao Qiyue was even more despicable than them.
Zhao Qiyue coldly said, “Look at your Junior Brother—so kind and compassionate. Even though you stole from him, he still pleads for your sake. And you? You do such vile things. Have you forgotten what I taught you?”
“The evidence is clear. Do you have anything left to say?”
Surrounded by scorn and suspicion, Li Chen remained extremely calm.
Now the question was—how to break this deadlock?
In his previous life, he refused to confess until death. In the end, Zhao Qiyue flew into a rage and threw him into the Infernal Demon Cave, where he endured the torture of the Infernal Wind for a full year. His body was slashed all over, covered in wounds, and he nearly died from it.
After escaping that place, he lay bedridden for three whole years.
And three years later, Qin Fan killed him with a single sword.
This time, after being reborn, Li Chen would not follow the same path.
If he denied the theft now, Zhao Qiyue would once again lose control and cast him into the Infernal Demon Cave. The Infernal Wind would gnaw at his flesh like ten thousand arrows piercing his heart. It wouldn’t kill him, but it would bring unimaginable suffering.
Remembering that torment made Li Chen tremble from within.
He had to break this situation.
He must.
At the 1st stage Qi Refining Realm, he had no strength to resist. If he couldn’t break this situation—he would surely die.
So how should he do it?
Then, Li Chen thought of a way.
Qin Fan, aren’t you trying to play the good guy?
Fine—I’ll help you do just that.
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