Hearing Xu Fan's shout, Chiba didn't dare to think further and immediately leaped toward the stone coffin!

Mid-air, he reached out and grabbed Asao Mai!

But in the end, he was still a step too late!

With a boom! In the night, the stone coffin suddenly exploded! Debris shot out like sharp arrows!

In mid-air, Chiba and Asao Mai were like kites with broken strings, flying outward!

Bang!

Chiba, holding Asao Mai, slammed hard onto the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The power from the stone coffin's explosion was not small, and Chiba coughed, spewing out a mouthful of blood.

His face was as pale as paper, clearly suffering significant injuries, but he couldn't care less about checking his own condition.

He hurriedly climbed up from the ground and rushed to where Asao Mai lay nearby.

"Da... daughter... daughter!"

He crawled to Asao Mai's side, picked her up, and called out desperately.

Again and again he called, but the beautiful girl in a kimono in his arms never opened her eyes...

Click... click...

A sense of foreboding rose in Chiba's heart as he held the daughter he'd watched grow up, his tears couldn't help but fall.

"Igarashi..."

In the end, he was deceiving himself. When had he ever been in control?

He was just a pitiful clown played by Igarashi!

Even his daughter lost her life because of him!

Chiba gritted his teeth tightly, his eyes full of fury, glancing at Igarashi not far away, filled with murderous intent.

His daughter died at his hands; he wanted blood for blood!

"Hehe, Chiba, I am not my master, and you have no right to play with him!"

"I believe you now understand how my master felt back then, right? Hahaha!"

Under Chiba's hateful glare, the fake Igarashi tore off the human skin mask on his face and mocked Chiba recklessly.

Each word of humiliation made Chiba tremble with anger.

It was revenge, the revenge he had been fearing all these years.

It finally came...

The night Saintess Akiyama Tsuki died, Igarashi did not flee directly from Ohno Temple.

He had sought him out to find the one who killed the Saintess.

Igarashi treated him as a brother and trusted him, only then did he reveal this matter to him.

But his reaction was...

Though he had already ascended to the position of Sect Leader of Ohno Temple, there was still a hidden danger.

The hidden danger was Igarashi!

Igarashi's cultivation level was simply too outstanding in Ohno Temple, despite his lack of interest in seizing the position of Sect Leader, he was still a threat...

For power, he abandoned brotherhood.

He remembered confronting Igarashi directly, even hypocritically saying, "I treat you as a brother. I will pretend not to have seen this. If you leave now, I won't stop you."

No matter how he tells others there might be hidden truths from back then, it does not cover up the disgraceful things he did for power!

The way of heaven has a cycle, and now the retribution has finally arrived.

The hypocrisy of the past has ultimately brought a lifelong regret upon him!

The hatred in Chiba's eyes finally dimmed, leaving only regret.

He already regretted it, but it was too late...

"..."

Inside Ohno Temple, the sounds of killing continued, but could not drown out Chiba's cries.

Xu Fan came to him, silent.

Truth be told, this guy schemed everything and ended up in this state. Xu Fan wanted to say he brought it upon himself.

But looking at Asao Mai, whose eyes could not open in Chiba's arms, he couldn't bring himself to say it.

This guy deserved it, but an innocent person like Asao Mai got involved.

Asao Mai was innocent, even if she was Chiba's daughter.

Thinking of the little girls still waiting at home for Asao Mai's return, Xu Fan couldn't help but feel guilty.

If what he brought back wasn't good news, but the news that Asao Mai would never return.

How would they cry?

Probably no less than Chiba right now, knowing how high Asao Mai's place in their hearts was.

"It's all your fault!"

Lost in sorrow, Chiba, holding Asao Mai, glared angrily at him.

Clearly, he blamed Xu Fan for Asao Mai's death.

Slap!

Xu Fan looked at him coldly and slapped him across the face!

Indeed, if this woman hadn't been with him, she wouldn't have been so easily captured by Igarashi.

But he shouldn't forget, the root of all this evil, was because of whom!

"Chiba, I don't want to shirk any responsibility."

"What needs to be done now, is to think of how to bring her back to life."

Xu Fan said this to Chiba blankly.

"Bring her back to life?"

But Chiba didn't take Xu Fan's words seriously, and sneered at him.

His daughter lay in his arms, her body already cold.

She was already dead, and he wondered where Xu Fan got the courage to say he could revive his daughter?

"Xu Fan, do you think you're some immortal..."

Chiba was about to mock Xu Fan, but before he could finish, the sound of hurried footsteps was heard outside Ohno Temple!

"What?"

Chiba frowned and looked outside Ohno Temple.

He saw figures rushing into the temple!

"Who are these people..."

The strange costumes they wore puzzled Chiba.

He didn't know if they were with Igarashi, but even a fool could see they were up to no good.

His earlier injuries had worsened, and watching the Heavenly Witch Sect disciples streaming in, Chiba couldn't help but smile bitterly.

This time, it seemed the entire ancient cultivators were facing utter annihilation!

"Chiba, give me Asao Mai."

Feeling the inescapable retribution, suddenly he heard Xu Fan urging next to him.

"What, you still naively think you can bring my daughter back to life?"

Facing inevitable retribution, Chiba's smile was exceptionally bitter.

He wished he were the only one dead.

His daughter, why did his daughter have to bear the consequences of his sins?

"Chiba, I don't want to waste words with you, nor do I have the time."

The members of the Heavenly Witch Sect had already joined the battle, leaving Xu Fan with no time to ramble.

He stared coldly at Chiba and said, "If you want your daughter to live, then damn it, hand her over to me quickly!"

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