After the diary incident, Shen Qing tried hard to defend herself, but still no one believed her.
To win them back, Shen Qing did many things like a love - sick puppy. Now when she recalled those things, she felt really ashamed of herself.
As for He Yu, during a secret realm adventure, he was attacked by a fierce beast in the Divine Transformation stage and was disfigured.
It was Shen Qing who dragged the half - dead He Yu back. But because she had used too many talismans to attack the fierce beast, Shen Qing was also seriously injured and fainted on the way.
Later, somehow, it became that Shen Qing had killed someone for treasures and caused He Yu's disfigurement, while Lin Yibai became He Yu's savior.
Shen Qing begged Lin Yibai to explain, but Lin Yibai's vague explanations made everyone believe even more that Shen Qing was the culprit.
Because of the diary incident, He Yu almost without hesitation believed Lin Yibai.
From then on, everything Shen Qing did was wrong.
To take revenge, He Yu took his precious natal sword and scratched Shen Qing's face. After treating her wounds, he would scratch her face again. He repeated this, torturing Shen Qing.
These two people were not worth Shen Qing's rescue at all.
After coming back to her senses from the memory, she said in a cold voice, "Since the senior brothers and sisters with higher cultivation levels can't do anything, we can only wait for Senior Brother Qian to come back with reinforcements."
No disciple objected to Shen Qing's decision.
Although they didn't want to watch their fellow disciples die right in front of them, they really couldn't think of any other way.
The disciples who recovered relatively quickly tried to fly on their swords over the swamp, but they couldn't avoid the swamp and pull the two people out.
Their storage bags were missing, so they had no magical treasures to use.
The poisonous gas in the swamp would instantly paralyze anyone who touched the swamp, causing them to fall into the pool.
This was also the reason why Senior Brother Qian could fly on his sword but could only go back for reinforcements instead of rescuing the two people.
Seeing that Shen Qing remained unmoved, Shen Chuyun gritted his teeth, picked up the ghost - controlling vine that Shen Qing had chopped to the ground earlier, and then flew on his sword above the two people.
He injected spiritual energy into the vine and controlled it to approach the swamp and wrap around Pei Xuanjing's arm that had sunk into the swamp.
Seeing Shen Chuyun trying to save people, the other disciples also took action.
One disciple flew onto a big tree and imitated Shen Chuyun's method, using a vine to tie around Shen Chuyun's waist.
"Senior Brother Shen, I'll hold you so you won't fall into the swamp."
Shen Chuyun gave the disciple a grateful look and then tried to fly upwards on his sword.
The suction force of the swamp was strong, so brute force couldn't be used. They could only lift the people out slowly. If they used too much force, the vine would break.
This method did work. Pei Xuanjing stopped sinking, and his body slowly left the swamp.
But after just a short while, Shen Chuyun was already sweating profusely, and his hands began to tremble involuntarily.
He kept looking at Shen Qing, hoping that she would step in and take his place.
Shen Chuyun was close to the swamp, and the stinky poisonous gas from the swamp rushed into his nose, making him feel nauseous.
Coupled with the itching all over his body, he only lasted for a moment, and the sword under his feet began to sway from side to side.
The disciple on the tree was being pulled by Shen Chuyun and could only barely keep himself from falling.
Seeing this, the other disciples were scared out of their wits. They all climbed up the tree and helped pull the vine tied to Shen Chuyun.
Fortunately, the vine was strong, or else Shen Chuyun would have fallen.
Shen Chuyun was also sweating profusely, but when he saw Shen Qing looking worriedly at the disciples on the tree, he came up with a plan.
He waved his arm, picked up another vine from the ground, and wrapped it around He Yu's arm in the same way.
A glint of cruelty flashed in Shen Chuyun's eyes. Then he pretended to have exhausted his spiritual energy and suddenly plummeted.
The disciple on the tree was almost pulled down by Shen Chuyun. Fortunately, the vine was controlled by several other disciples, and the disciple didn't fall.
Shen Qing squinted her eyes and instantly understood Shen Chuyun's intention.
He was using this method to force her to take action.
"Senior Brother Shen, save one first. We can't hold on any longer!!"
The disciple on the tree shouted anxiously, but Shen Chuyun seemed not to hear. He just stared fixedly at Shen Qing.
How despicable!
It seemed that he had seen that Shen Qing was deliberately not saving the people.
He was gambling with the lives of his fellow disciples, betting that Shen Qing would take action and that she could save the people.
"Shen Chuyun, are you joking with the lives of your fellow disciples? You clearly can't save two people, but you still insist on being a hero. Sure enough, your lives are precious, but others' lives are nothing in your eyes."
Shen Chuyun's behavior disgusted Shen Qing so much that she didn't want him to be seen as a good person.
There was so much malice hidden in the dark corner of his heart, and Shen Qing just wanted to expose this malice in front of everyone.
After hearing Shen Qing's words, the disciples who were still holding on to the vine suddenly remembered Shen Chuyun's previous remarks.
Sacrificing the lives of inner - sect disciples to save the lives of direct - disciple...
Shen Chuyun felt that the vine on his body seemed to loosen a bit. He gritted his teeth in hatred for Shen Qing.
"I'm not! Don't you see that Senior Brother He is about to sink? Why can you be so cold and indifferent..."
"So you're just ignoring the lives of others, right?"
Shen Qing retorted calmly. The longer Shen Chuyun persisted, the harder it would be to save the two people.
He wanted to force her to save the people, but don't disgust her.
"Senior Brother Shen, if you don't give up one, neither of them can be saved. We can't hold on any longer!"
Shen Chuyun was in a dilemma.
His mind became more and more confused, and his eyes seemed to be covered by black mist, but no one noticed...
"Little disciple! Shen Chuyun is about to turn evil!!"
Ling Zhou's panicked voice suddenly sounded. In his eyes, the black mist缠绕 around Shen Chuyun was constantly pouring into Shen Chuyun's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
The whole of him was like a black shadow. What else could this be if not turning evil?
"Master, what do you see?"
In Shen Qing's eyes, Shen Chuyun at this moment didn't seem to have any changes except looking a bit ferocious.
"His whole body is covered in black mist, but his physical strength is constantly rising. It seems that he is about to break through."
Shen Qing stared intently but didn't find any spiritual energy gathering around Shen Chuyun. Without the gathering of spiritual energy, how could he break through?
But the next second, Shen Chuyun let out a painful cry.
"Ah!!"
Shen Qing and all the disciples almost noticed at the same time that Shen Chuyun's cultivation level slowly increased from the middle stage of the Golden Core.
The late stage of the Golden Core...
The early stage of the Nascent Soul...
The middle stage of the Nascent Soul...
...
Until the late stage of the Divine Transformation...
And Pei Xuanjing and He Yu were also pulled out of the swamp by Shen Chuyun who had reached the Divine Transformation stage.
All the disciples stared at Shen Chuyun in stunned silence, as if looking at a monster.
After leaving the swamp, Pei Xuanjing and He Yu instantly woke up and immediately noticed something wrong with Shen Chuyun.
The disciples came down from the tree and surrounded Pei Xuanjing and He Yu who had been placed in a safe place, but no one dared to get close to Shen Chuyun.
Until a disciple said blankly, "Has Senior Brother Shen... practiced a demonic technique?"