"Hmph, if you were watching the whole time, why didn't you stop it right then and there? That would have been far more satisfying! Coming forward now just means you're trying to pin the blame on me!" Jun Moxie snorted, completely disbelieving. Furthermore, the way the woman spoke was incredibly presumptuous, almost like the fanciful imaginings of a little girl...

To clear everything up and then be allowed to leave freely? This—this proposition was utterly naive! Even a fool wouldn't believe it! Jun Moxie would absolutely not go back, and the Sacred Emperors, upon learning the truth, would certainly never allow him to "leave freely"...

Explain? What is there to explain? If you were so certain you were watching, catching me on the spot would have been infinitely stronger than any explanation! Why the unnecessary flourish afterward?

"If I didn't stop it immediately, I naturally had my reasons!"

The woman’s face flushed, colored by considerable indignation. Her snow-white, delicate cheeks puffed out immensely, but she quickly realized she was reverting to an old habit, hurriedly coughed, and instantly regained her elegant composure.

Jun Moxie’s suggested method was undoubtedly the most effective; she knew that well enough. It was precisely due to some rather peculiar circumstances that she could not and dared not act immediately, which allowed Jun Moxie’s scheme to succeed.

Now, because of this battle, the animosity between the two sides had escalated severely, perhaps even leading to a complete rupture. Even if she stepped forward now and declared: "Both sides, stop fighting! This was all the plot of that rogue, Jun Moxie..." Who would believe her without concrete evidence? Moreover, in everyone's mind, Jun Moxie had been dead for over a month, killed by Zhan Mubai. What could a dead man possibly do?

The idea that someone who had long been deceased could suddenly reappear and, relying only on the strength of a Third Level Venerable, manage to manipulate the top ten Sacred Emperors—the notion was too absurd! Thus, she felt helpless and deeply frustrated.

However, the expression now fixed on the woman's face evoked a strange thought in Jun Moxie’s mind: So, she’s nothing more than a mere slip of a girl. This wasn't his fault; it was simply that her current demeanor bore too little difference from that of an innocent, world-unaware young maiden...

Consequently, Jun Moxie trusted her words less and less. With thoughts flashing through his mind, his eyes darted, and he decided to tease her a bit more.

"Let me guess your reason! Clearly, you disliked them and engineered a fight between them! I see now, not only are you capable of boasting, but this whole conspiracy must have been orchestrated by you! It was you! Only a supreme expert from three hundred or eight hundred years ago could play so many Sacred Emperor powerhouses in the palm of their hand! I finally understand! I truly understand!"

Young Master Jun feigned a sudden epiphany, his face contorting into an expression of righteous fury: "You must have stolen the weapons of Hai Wuya and He Zhi Qiu, exacerbating the conflict between them until they fought! You have truly wicked intentions! Why? Why would you do this?!"

Young Master Jun’s expression was almost painfully distressed: "For the peace of the continent, for the sake of all living beings, the Three Great Sacred Lands have guarded the mortal realm for ten thousand years! They are the heroes of the Xuan Xuan Continent! They are the role models for us humans! And yet, you would stoop to such despicable treachery to frame them! What is your motive? Could it be that you are secretly an ally of the foreign races, deliberately sabotaging the continent's peace?"

"The green snake’s mouth, the hornet’s stinger; both are venomous, but the wickedest heart belongs to woman! I see it today: a mere slip of a girl harbors such venomous intent, plotting against the heroes of our Xuan Xuan Continent! Such behavior is truly deplorable! It makes one sigh with regret... Why? Why is this happening? What is wrong with education nowadays?... Ah!"

Young Master Jun shook his head dramatically, sighing with profound emotion. The final, lingering sigh conveyed immense heartache...

"You... you you you..."

The woman’s beautiful eyes widened, leaving her so enraged she stammered, her delicate face flushed crimson, yet her tongue was tied, utterly unable to utter a word. She had lived for over a thousand years, yet this was the first time she had encountered such a shameless human being!

She had caught him red-handed, yet he immediately turned the tables, not only shifting all the blame onto her but even fabricating numerous baseless charges against her, positioning himself as the very defender of humanity! Who exactly was this person?

Even shamelessness should have its limits!

"Jun Moxie, there’s no need for such elaborate sophistry to defend yourself."

She took a deep breath, finally composing herself, though her chest still heaved violently with anger. She forced her usual composed tone, speaking lightly: "I witnessed every step of what happened here personally; nothing you say now matters! As soon as I capture you and search your person for those weapons, the misunderstanding will be cleared!"

Jun Moxie burst into loud laughter, a sound so unrestrained it seemed tears might spill out as he leaned back and forth: "You said you’ve lived for over a thousand years, right? And you refer to Hai Wuya and the others as 'little fellows,' correct?"

"Does that mean I can make a very simple deduction: Your strength must far surpass that of those previous Sacred Emperors, wouldn't you agree?"

"That is only natural! How could their meager cultivation compare to mine?"

The woman snorted, tilting her head slightly, her voice carrying a tone of proud reserve. She assumed Jun Moxie finally understood her formidable nature and felt a moment of relief, bordering on self-satisfaction. "Since you accept my first deduction, let me make a second one. They are all Sacred Emperor powerhouses! And I am merely a mere Third Level Venerable. Since you are more powerful than all of them, and you clearly witnessed me setting up the scheme, why didn't you seize me on the spot and expose my conspiracy? By this logic, you must have some other motive, correct?"

Jun Moxie smiled.

"What... deduction! They are all wrong! If that bastard, the Fourteenth Young Master of Nine Hells, hadn't been watching me the entire time, why would I not have captured you right then and there? Do you think your strange tricks are all that impressive?"

His words struck a nerve, and the woman’s delicate eyebrows shot up, tinged with visible annoyance.

"The Fourteenth Young Master of Nine Hells? He got involved in this too?"

This time, Jun Moxie was genuinely shocked. Had that fellow never left, but been trailing him all along?

The woman snorted, her pretty face shifting between various expressions.

This woman was named Qiao Ying, and what she said was, in fact, completely true.

She possessed the Heaven-Born Keen Eye—what common folk call the ‘Yin-Yang Eye’—which could see through all forms of evil phenomena. As she matured, especially as her profound cultivation reached higher levels, this innate skill upgraded and refined itself alongside her Xuan Gong progress.

Through a fortuitous encounter, an elder from a Sacred Land discovered that Qiao Ying's Heaven-Born Keen Eye possessed this extraordinary function. He decided to imitate the evasion techniques of the foreign races and tested the little girl at that time!

The result was obvious: she could perfectly see through the evasive techniques of the foreign races!

The elder was ecstatic beyond measure!

From that moment on began Qiao Ying’s life, marked by both unparalleled glory and extreme sorrow and isolation.

Because her Keen Eye was a monumental weapon against the foreign races, the Heavenly Sacred Palace absorbed her early on to serve as a guardian. They spared no expense, making her consume the Seven-Colored Sacred Fruit and the Exquisite Lotus once every five hundred years to maintain her vigorous life force in preparation for the Battle of Seizing Heaven. She was now eleven hundred years old—truly a millennial demoness!

It could be imagined: consuming the Seven-Colored Fruit and Exquisite Lotus every five hundred years, extending her youth indefinitely and granting her an additional five hundred years of Xuan Power each time, meant her current realm had already reached an unimaginable height!

To date, she had consumed the Seven-Colored Fruit and Exquisite Lotus three times. Her own eleven centuries of pure cultivation, combined with the fifteen centuries of power gained from the fruits, totaled nearly twenty-six centuries of power! Calculated purely by the depth of her Xuan Power, she was undoubtedly the foremost person in the current age! Perhaps even the Fourteenth Young Master of Nine Hells could not compare!

However, where there is advantage, there is disadvantage. Although she could naturally see through any form of evasion technique in the world, this ability had a very significant drawback: the energy required to activate her Keen Eye was more than ten times that of a normal battle, requiring a long period of recuperation after each use!

The two Battles of Seizing Heaven had nearly depleted her reserves from overuse of the Keen Eye skill, severely damaging her vitality. Furthermore, the Keen Eye was a skill that harmed both others and the user. If it weren't for the necessity of the Battle of Seizing Heaven, she probably would have crippled the ability herself long ago!

This ability, while incomparably powerful, required one to consider the implications: the Keen Eye could see any malevolent spirit! Imagine that places where ordinary eyes see only empty space, in her Keen Eye they appeared bustling and crowded, like a marketplace!...

And these people originally did not belong to this world! Because these... were all people who had already died!

The very thought was enough to drive one mad. How could a young maiden endure this? How could she bear it, especially after enduring it for over a thousand years!

It could be said that the fact Qiao Ying had not gone mad or completely broken down until now testified to the sheer toughness of her nerves!

Furthermore, for the sake of the Keen Eye and the Battle of Seizing Heaven, Qiao Ying had sacrificed the most fundamental happiness of a normal woman: marriage and family!

She could not!

Because the basic requirement for the Keen Eye was to maintain an absolutely pure Yin body, absolute purity! The moment she lost her virginity, the power of the Keen Eye would completely vanish with it!

Thus, the emotions, love, and sweet moments experienced by ordinary women were the most commonplace aspects of life—but they were entirely unavailable to Qiao Ying...

She could only remain solitary, preserving a heart as cold as ice!

It could almost be said that this woman named Qiao Ying was truly the one who had sacrificed the most for the Xuan Xuan Continent and for all living beings!