My Master Knows It All

Capítulo 1968: Chapter 428: The Reason for Zong Zhen’s Betrayal

Immortal Lord Jue Zhen looked at Immortal Lord Cuo Zhen’s fearful expression, yet with a heavy heart, he slowly walked forward, speaking in a low voice, “I already know the reason why Zong Zhen defected the sect.”

Zong Zhen!

These two words hadn’t appeared in the Extreme Formation Sect for a long time, and this name had even become a taboo in the Extreme Formation Sect.

The young disciples were unaware of Zong Zhen’s existence, while the older disciples either dared not mention this name or disdained to speak these two words.

Because Zong Zhen had betrayed the sect!

Some cultivators, upon reaching the Earth Immortal Realm, would give themselves an honorific title.

However, some cultivators considered the Earth Immortal Realm to be insignificant, but almost all cultivators, upon breaking through to the Immortality Regainment Realm, would possess an honorific title.

The Immortality Regainment Realm is generally referred to as Venerable.

These honorific titles, some were self-imposed, while others were bestowed by their master or elders.

Back then, after Zong Zhen entered the Immortality Regainment Realm, the honorific title he gave himself was not the current Zong Zhen, but Ancestral Formation!

The word “Ancestral” was too grand, and only the founders of a great teaching, the Ancestral Elders, could be worthy of using the word “Ancestral”!

Hence, upon knowing the honorific title Zong Zhen gave himself, everyone stopped him.

The then Sect Hierarch even asked Zong Zhen to change his honorific title, and thus the title Zong Zhen came to be.

If he couldn’t be called Ancestral, then he would be called Zong!

Looking back now, Jue Zhen realized that Zong Zhen must have already started his research on the Human Array back then, and by giving himself the honorific title Ancestral Formation, he meant to be the ancestor of the Human Array.

It had been a long time since Cuo Zhen last heard that name, and upon hearing it again, his entire body involuntarily shook, a tinge of worry appeared on his face. Had his secret been discovered by others? How did Senior Sister Jue Zhen find out?

Immortal Lord Jue Zhen looked at Immortal Lord Cuo Zhen across from him and slowly spoke, “Has your body changed as well, or should I say, by now you can be considered a Human Array too.”

She was not certain whether Zong Zhen had experimented on Cuo Zhen or not, but she knew that even if Zong Zhen had indeed experimented on Cuo Zhen or modified his body, Cuo Zhen wouldn’t admit it.

Therefore, she did not inquire whether Zong Zhen had modified his body, but instead directly stated that the other had modified his body.

As her words fell, Cuo Zhen suddenly stood there stupefied. Then, despite having lived for over ten thousand years and already reaching the True Immortal Realm, he collapsed to the ground, covering his face with his hands, his eyes instantly moist.

In just a moment, he was utterly shattered!

He knew, Jue Zhen indeed knew!

How did she find out!

Jue Zhen looked at Cuo Zhen’s state and sighed longingly in her heart. Zong Zhen had indeed experimented on Cuo Zhen!

Unexpectedly, Zong Zhen had become so insane. He was the person Cuo Zhen respected the most, and he always treated Cuo Zhen as if he were his own younger brother, yet he still laid hands on Cuo Zhen.

If Cuo Zhen was like this, what about the Chess Formation?

If he didn’t spare Cuo Zhen, how could he spare the Chess Formation?

Therefore, did the Chess Formation also deceive me? Cuo Zhen must have experimented on him too, but why was he helping Zong Zhen conceal it? Was it out of respect for him?

But if that were the case, why did he tell me what Zong Zhen had done?

Jue Zhen couldn’t figure it out for a moment.

Her gaze fell once more on Cuo Zhen who had collapsed on the ground, she sighed inwardly, waved her hand gently, and a soft power rushed out, lifting Cuo Zhen’s body to stand upright in the void.

In truth, the most distressed person was Cuo Zhen.

The person he trusted and respected the most had betrayed his great teaching, and even cruelly harmed the disciples within the great teaching, using them for experiments, not sparing even him.

Cuo Zhen didn’t initially know why his senior brother defected the sect, but since he left the great teaching, while adventuring outside, he encountered his senior brother and, after understanding everything done by the senior brother he most respected, his entire belief completely collapsed.

He truly couldn’t comprehend why his senior brother, who had always been so loving and protective of all the disciples within the great teaching, could do such things!

Those, after all, were his senior brother’s disciples and pupils!

Many of them even considered his senior brother as the person they admired the most!

In the end, the person they admired the most was the one who harmed them.

Immortal Lord Jue Zhen noticed that although Cuo Zhen seemed shattered, it appeared that he had already expected that someone would find out about everything Zong Zhen had done, so his spirit gradually recovered somewhat.

She paused slightly, and after Cuo Zhen calmed down for a while, she slowly asked, “Can you tell me what exactly happened when you met him outside back then?”

“I…” Cuo Zhen seemed to be reminiscing, a look of pain appeared on his face as he spoke in a low voice, “That day I was outside and encountered danger, it was him who rescued me.

You all know the feelings between us, even though he has defected the sect, I do not hate him in my heart. I just don’t understand why he betrayed the sect, so I asked him the reason, and he told me everything.”

Cuo Zhen painfully clutched his hair as he spoke, and his voice involuntarily rose, “Do you know how calmly he spoke to me back then when he told me he was using our great teaching’s disciples for experiments? It was as if they weren’t disciples of our great teaching at all, as if those people were just various materials for refining formations.