In the final round of the competition, the martial arts alliance leader suddenly said he had something to discuss. No matter what, Lin Yao had to give him face. He hastily told Miaomiao a few words and then rushed to meet the leader.
However, he never expected that this would be the last time he spoke to his daughter.
He didn't know what had happened on the arena. When he arrived, all he saw was Miaomiao's cold body and her empty, lifeless eyes.
Lin Yao found it extremely hard to accept this. His lively daughter, the one who was almost invincible under the sky, had actually lost in a competition among juniors.
The average age of the participants in this competition was only 17. There was no way anyone could defeat his daughter. Even if there was really such a prodigy, Miaomiao wouldn't have ignored his instructions and fought recklessly at the cost of her life.
But all the participants in the martial arts competition had signed a life - and - death agreement. He had no reason to demand an explanation. People around him stepped forward to console him, but he seemed to detect a hint of glee beneath their feigned sad expressions.
Lin Yao didn't know how he got home. He hugged his daughter in a daze for three days. Finally, his servant reminded him to find out the real culprit who had killed Miaomiao, and then he振作ed himself.
He dissected Miaomiao's body with his own hands. At the location of her heart, he saw a cluster of dead worms.
He recognized almost at a glance that these were the gu worms from Southern Xinjiang.
Someone had planted the gu worms in Miaomiao's body. As soon as she used her internal energy, the blood flow in her body would accelerate. These worms that had merged into the blood vessels couldn't adapt to the extremely fast blood flow and would soon die. The corpses of the worms remained in the blood vessels. The circulating blood in the body would carry these worms to the heart and finally pile them up, blocking the blood vessels of the heart and creating the illusion of sudden death.
But what could he do even if he knew how Miaomiao had been killed?
The Witchcraft and Gu School of Southern Xinjiang was regarded as a cult in the martial arts world. Moreover, they usually only stayed in their own territory. On the day of the martial arts conference, not a single member of the Witchcraft and Gu School of Southern Xinjiang had participated.
So, someone must have colluded with the Witchcraft and Gu School of Southern Xinjiang to obtain the method of planting gu worms and had done something to Miaomiao before the conference. The round - robin competition was also designed to make Miaomiao use her internal energy continuously, accelerating her death.
Who was the real culprit? And who were the accomplices?
Almost every disciple from every sect had participated in the round - robin competition. This might have been a competition specifically targeting Miaomiao.
There was no such thing as "letting bygones be bygones." It was just that some people couldn't bear to see such a martial arts prodigy belong to someone else. In order to consolidate their own positions, they had sent him and his daughter to their deaths.
Perhaps the martial arts alliance leader who had summoned him that day was also involved, but there was no way to verify this.
Those who claimed to be the righteous sects would surely shift all the blame to the Witchcraft and Gu School of Southern Xinjiang. Lin Yao could even imagine what they would say to shirk their responsibilities.
They would probably just say that there was a traitor within the school and casually pick an outer - sect disciple or a servant to take the blame.
Having guessed most of the truth, Lin Yao felt extremely powerless and self - reproachful.
Because of his侥幸 psychology and negligence, Miaomiao had lost her life. But after guessing the truth, he didn't have the power to avenge his daughter.
Lin Yao suddenly felt that he had lived a very failed life.
When he was a child, due to his dissatisfaction with his father, even though he was sad during his father's funeral, he had many complaints and had never expressed his admiration for his father. Whenever they met, they would quarrel. It was only after he took over the villa that he gradually understood his father's hardships. But by then, he no longer had the chance to say sorry to his father.
When he grew up, he adopted a daughter and taught her to be self - reliant and independent. He knew that he was in poor health and his lifespan would not be long. In order not to let Miaomiao rely on him too much, the most intimate thing he had ever done was just to hold his daughter's hand and take a walk on the mountain behind the villa. For the rest of the time, he was mostly strict, making Miaomiao recite books and practice martial arts, hoping that she could live well even without her father.
Sometimes, he really wanted to express his love for his daughter, but he didn't know how to start. He didn't know how a kind - hearted father should act. He could only be a strict father. Even when he wanted to hug his daughter, he had to think twice.
But now, he could no longer let Miaomiao experience what it was like to be a cherished daughter.
The two most important people in his life had left before him, a person destined to die young. It seemed that there was no point in living anymore.
A crazy idea flashed through Lin Yao's mind. He decided to stake everything of the villa to avenge Miaomiao and his father.
Anyway, he didn't plan to get married or have children. He was alone and destined to walk this path by himself. Instead, he might as well do something worthy of himself, his father, and his daughter before the end of his life.
Lin Yao quickly dismissed all the servants in the villa and turned the huge villa into money.
It was really true that money could make the mare go. He took half of the money from the villa and anonymously issued a martial arts world bounty order to hunt down all the disciples of the Witchcraft and Gu School of Southern Xinjiang.
When enough people from the Witchcraft and Gu School of Southern Xinjiang had died, he visited them. Using the identity of the person who had issued the bounty order as a bargaining chip, he got the list of people who had taken gu worms from Southern Xinjiang to harm others.
There were quite a few names on the list. Almost all the sects, while spurning the Witchcraft and Gu School of Southern Xinjiang, were also buying gu worms to harm others.
Finally, he let the sect of the man that Miaomiao had disabled take the blame for the bounty order. In terms of hatred, this sect must have the deepest hatred for Miaomiao. So, among the real culprits who had killed Miaomiao, this sect must be the mastermind.
After leaving Southern Xinjiang, he made the list public. The sects that had not participated in buying the witchcraft and gu worms all went to the people on the list to demand an explanation.
In the martial arts world, demanding an explanation usually meant fighting.
The sects with grudges against each other used this as an excuse and, under the banner of justice, massacred each other. Those who were greedy for other sects' martial arts skills and treasures also used this name to blackmail and attack.
The entire martial arts world was in a blood - soaked and chaotic state because of his scheme.
Looking at these people fighting each other like dogs, Lin Yao didn't feel much pleasure. Even if all these people died, he couldn't bring back his father and Miaomiao.
There was still half of his family property left. Lin Yao was like a madman, searching everywhere for the method of reincarnation.
Finally, when he was 42 years old, he found a hermit master. He spent all his remaining wealth and his own life in exchange for the fate of being with his family in the next life.
However, since his father had been dead for too long, he couldn't trace him. He could only get the father - daughter fate with Miaomiao.
The old Taoist priest assured him that he could ensure Miaomiao a happy and care - free life in the next life, allowing him to make up for what he had owed in this life. If something went wrong halfway, the old Taoist priest would do his best to rewrite Miaomiao's life.
This sounded really ridiculous, but he believed it. After the inexplicable ceremony and after giving away all his money, Lin Yao even thought it was just a psychological comfort.
But after the ceremony, he felt his life slipping away. As his body gradually weakened and his end was approaching, he began to hope that it was real.
He hoped that in the next life, he could find his cherished daughter again and ensure her a life of peace, happiness, and well - being.