Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Nie Huaisang could not be happier to be able to clear Wei Wuxian's name directly, but he couldn't show his joy in front of him and Nie Mingjue. So Nie Huaisang took the confession that he had finally extracted from Xue Yang, and went to Nie Mingjue with a serious face.

While handing the confession to Nie Mingjue, Nie Huaisang said solemnly, "Brother, Xue Yang knew him when Meng Yao was undercover in Nevernight. Later, it was Meng Yao who found out that the Liyang Chang family, which was wiped out by Xue Yang, had committed many evil deeds and had bullied Xue Yang many times. He said that Xue Yang's act of wiping out the family was just ordinary revenge."

"As for Xue Yang's joining Nevernight, Meng Yao pushed the blame onto Wen Ruohan, saying that Xue Yang was forced into it."

"But in fact, Meng Yao thought Xue Yang was a good swordsman, and he intentionally revealed Xue Yang's existence to Sect Master Jin. After the Sun Shooting Campaign, Xue Yang was ostensibly used by Sect Master Jin, but in fact, he was Meng Yao's confidant. Xue Yang even attempted to restore the destroyed Yin Iron at the instruction of Sect Master Jin and Meng Yao!"

Hearing the word Yin Tie, Nie Mingjue couldn't help but breathe heavily.

If he were to say, the appearance of the Yin Iron caused drastic changes in the world, and Xue Chonghai caused all sorts of trouble but still ended up dead; Wen Ruohan who came later was even worse than Xue Chonghai, as he was killed in a sneak attack; Wei Wuxian recently managed to keep his heart steady, but he could not resist the frame-up by others and stood on the opposite side of the hundreds of immortal sects. Those cultivators who died in Qiongqi Dao will always be remembered by someone.

Knowing that Nie Huaisang's brother had a very good relationship with the two sons of the Jiang family, otherwise the Jiang clan leader would not have sent such a detailed marrow cleansing recipe. Seeing that his brother was pretending to be serious, Nie Mingjue was in no mood to care about anything. He just asked, "Are you sure that his confession is true? Will Xue Yang change his statement during the public interrogation in two days?"

Nie Huaisang straight away puffed out his chest and took on the responsibility: "Xue Yang's confession is just corroboration in some aspects. We just need to investigate carefully to determine whether it is true or not. As for whether he denies it or not, that's fine. Both the Jiang Clan and the Lan Clan have effective soul-searching methods."

Nie Mingjue looked at Nie Huaisang, who had grown taller and had a stronger body, and nodded with satisfaction in his heart. However, he had always been strict with his younger brother, so even though the satisfaction in his eyes was overflowing, his face remained motionless, and he just nodded casually, as if Nie Huaisang was just an ordinary subordinate.

Nie Mingjue then ordered, “Since it has been decided to publicly try Xue Yang, you should send out the invitations when you return. Don’t leave anyone out.”

Nie Huaisang responded loudly, walked out of the door in a steady manner, but couldn't help jumping up excitedly. Nie Mingjue noticed the movement and could only shake his head helplessly. After all, he was more methodical in doing things now, and no longer spent all day writing and flirting with cats and dogs like before.

Nie Huaisang was the first to post a letter to Yunmeng Jiang Clan, in which he stated that Xue Yang had been captured by Taoist priests Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan and sent to the unclean world. After personally interrogating him, he determined that Xue Yang was trying to restore the Yin Iron with the support of Jin Guangshan and Meng Yao respectively, and that Wen Ning suddenly lost control that day because Xue Yang wanted to take the opportunity to test his own results.

Although it seems that Jin Guangshan or Meng Yao cannot be directly implicated in Jin Zixuan's death, at least Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning can be cleared of all charges.

When Jiang Wanyin received the news from Nie Huaisang, he immediately laughed three times and then turned around to write a letter to Wei Wuxian, inviting him to bring Wen Qing to the Unclean World to participate in the public trial of Xue Yang.

Lan Huan and Lan Zhan, who also received the news, felt that Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning had finally been cleared of their grievances, but Lan Qiren sighed and said, "The Jin family is in a mess right now. If Jin Guangshan is pushed into a corner, who knows what he will do."

Lan Zhan's eyes flashed with hatred when he heard this, and he said, "Master Jin can no longer control the situation. Besides, with his personality, he would not do anything that would lead to the destruction of both sides."

Lan Huan also deeply agreed with this. The reason why the Wen family did not persecute Jinlingtai was not only because of the Nie family blocking in front, but also because of the Lan family and Jiang family tying down the Wen family's manpower in the back. Jin Guangshan's flattery of Wen Ruohan was also a big part of the credit.

But later, when Wen Ruohan died, Jin Guangshan took advantage of his status as an elder and claimed all of Meng Yao's credit, attempting to replace Wen Ruohan.

Lan Qiren could see the truth that the younger generations understood even more clearly. He mentioned it now only because he was worried that the affairs of the Jin family would implicate the Jiang family, and that his second nephew would drag the Lan family into the water to support the Jiang family.

In other words, Lan Zhan still didn't know what his uncle Lan Qiren was thinking, otherwise he would have been thinking about the fact that Lan Huan had forced Nie Mingjue and Meng Yao to become sworn brothers, which was a blatant act of ignoring the Jiang family.

In fact, if we count three or five generations ago, when the Wen family was still around, there were few intermarriages among the five great families. It was not until the generation of Lan Huan and Lan Zhan that a legitimate daughter, Jiang Yanli, was finally born and married into the Jin family. In the past few generations, although the legitimate descendants of the major families had some exchanges with each other, not many of them had close relationships.

Lan Qiren sighed again, "The Jiang family might take this opportunity to push Wei Wuxian to the forefront and completely expose the matter of Qiongqi Dao. You should be prepared."

Sure enough, the public trial of Xue Yang was very successful.

Xue Yang did go back on his words just as Nie Mingjue had worried, but Jiang Wanyin had already learned several useful spells in advance and directly used the soul-searching technique, leaving everyone present with no way of telling the truth.

In the end, Jin Guangshan returned to Jinling Terrace in disgrace, and had to respectfully send Wen Ning back to Wen Qing, because Lan Zhan came forward to testify that Wen Ning had indeed been to Jinling Terrace, and Jiang Yanli also came forward to testify that Wen Ning had never appeared again after going to Jinling Terrace.

Jin Guangshan deeply hated Jiang Yanli for not being on the same page with the Jin family, and wished Jiang Yanli would die. However, Mrs. Jin would not tolerate Jin Guangshan harming her grandson's mother. Moreover, now that it was confirmed that the old man Jin Guangshan had indeed harmed Jin Zixuan, she wished she could eat Jin Guangshan alive.

Jiang Yanli was not in a hurry to return to Lotus Pier, but continued to live in the villa owned by Madam Jin under Jinling Terrace. However, she directly invited the ladies of the aristocratic families who were close to the Jin family and the ladies of the Jin family's side branches, and during the banquet she took out the marrow cleansing recipe for Jin Ling.

"This recipe was developed by Miss Wen Qing for my brother Wei Wuxian. My brother was robbed in the past, and the golden elixir in his stomach was dissolved by the master of elixir Wen Zhuliu. He was then thrown into the mass grave to fend for himself for three months."

"In the mass grave, my brother had to practice the way of ghosts in order to survive. With the help of the ghost flute Chen Qing, he gained the ability to command the corpses and ghosts."

The ladies below were confused by what they heard, but that did not stop them from speaking up for Wei Wuxian. However, Jiang Yanli's purpose was not this.

After everyone had finished speaking, she continued, "The marrow cleansing recipe in my hand is the one my brother used to repair his Dantian. Not only did his golden elixir disappear in the hands of the Danhua Hand, but his Dantian was also damaged. Miss Wen Qing has read a lot of books and has come up with a reliable guess, which is that in the past, no one who lost their golden elixir could successfully restore it, probably because their Dantian was damaged."

Everyone then began to take Jiang Yanli seriously. After all, the prescription she had was very important.