Chapter 48 Is Ye Li using evil magic to retaliate against us?

Su Ying'er immediately covered her mouth, pretending to have accidentally said something wrong. She kept shaking her head, "No, I didn't say anything. Fifth Senior Brother, just take it as my fault. Ying'er has no complaints."

This hesitant and ambiguous statement clearly indicates there's more to the story.

Ye Li gave a cold laugh.

This Su Ying'er really has a silver tongue; let's see if she can turn black into white.

Mo Hannian's brow furrowed even deeper. "What do you mean by 'treating it as your fault'? What do you mean by saying that!"

Su Ying'er shook her head sadly, "No, I really can't say it, Fifth Senior Brother. I hope you live a carefree and happy life. Even if you never speak to me again in this life, as long as you are successful, I will have no regrets."

She spoke with heartfelt sincerity, and tears streamed down her beautiful face as she became deeply moved.

Mo Hannian was slightly taken aback, clearly recalling their past relationship.

Because of the Gu poison, he was unwilling to go out. When his fellow disciples talked to him, they deliberately avoided the topic of cultivation breakthroughs. Their cautiousness disgusted him.

Besides Ying'er, she was like a little sun, forcefully entering his life and bringing him sunshine.

She did throw away the bowl of medicine, but she didn't do it on purpose; she was just trying to make him happy in her own way.

Thinking of this, Mo Hannian lost the will to be angry.

He has already hurt his senior sister beyond repair; he cannot hurt Ying'er as well.

Mo Hannian slumped onto the stone bench, raised his hand to cover his face, his voice full of exhaustion, "Forget it, it's not your fault, it's all my fault."

"Xiao Wu".

Before Wen Yao could say anything, Mo Hannian waved his hand and said, "Actually, all these years I've been thinking that if my senior sister hadn't saved me after I was poisoned by the Gu that day, that would have been better."

His eyes stung, and his voice was hoarse, "If she hadn't saved me, she wouldn't have had to suffer so much to test medicine for me. If she had spent the time she wasted on me on cultivation, she might have been able to protect herself in danger, and she wouldn't have..."

"Clearly, I'm the one who deserves to die."

"No!"

Su Ying'er, who had been unwilling to speak, suddenly became agitated upon hearing this. She rushed to Mo Hannian, her face full of heartache, "Fifth Senior Brother! I won't allow you to talk about yourself like that. You are the victim. If it weren't for Senior Sister, you wouldn't have been poisoned by the Gu!"

This statement caused a great stir, and everyone's faces showed astonishment upon hearing it.

Mo Hannian's face darkened with anger. "What nonsense are you spouting! What does my being poisoned by Gu have to do with my senior sister!"

Su Ying'er feigned a struggle, as if torn between speaking and remaining silent. Finally, she stamped her foot, as if making up her mind, and said, "Fifth Senior Brother, do you still remember how you were poisoned by the Gu poison back then?"

Mo Hannian remained silent.

How could I not remember?

At the age of twelve, he possessed a top-grade water spiritual root and became a disciple of Master Qingyu. By the age of fourteen, he had reached the mid-stage of Qi Refining. Although he was not as good as Ye Li, he could still be praised as having a promising future.

Until that time I went to the Mad Sand Ridge for the trial.

He was young and impetuous, and deserted the main force to capture monsters, whereupon he was attacked.

When he woke up, he was already infected with a Gu poison.

He went from a promising young talent to this useless state.

The pain of the past was still vivid in his mind. Mo Hannian's voice was hoarse. "After I was attacked, it was my senior sister who saved me. The elder of Shuiyun Sect said that if it weren't for my senior sister supplying me with spiritual energy all the way, I would have lost my life."

Thinking of this, Mo Hannian felt even more guilty towards Ye Li. Looking at Su Ying'er again, his eyes turned cold. "It was clearly my senior sister who saved me. Why do you say that I wouldn't have been poisoned without her?"

Not only Mo Hannian wanted to know, but Ye Li also wanted to know what excuse Su Ying'er would come up with to pin the blame on her.

Su Ying'er played hard to get, saying, "Actually, I wanted to keep this to myself. I can accept being misunderstood by you, but I can't watch you give up on yourself."

She looked at Mo Hannian, biting her lip and looking troubled, "Actually, on the day I went to the Mist Camphor Forest with my fourth senior brother, I hid something from him."

Wen Yao immediately pressed, "What happened? Is it related to A-Li?"

Although Bai Xiaosheng was punished, a question remained in everyone's mind: Why did Bai Xiaosheng say that it was Su Ying'er who injured him, and what did he see?

This time, Su Ying'er nodded. She glanced at Wen Yao and whispered, "That day, I saw Senior Sister talking to someone with a strange appearance. They seemed very familiar with each other, and I even saw them hugging each other, very intimately..."

"Su Ying'er!"

Ye Li's eyes were bloodshot with rage. It was clearly she who conspired with the masked man to kill her, yet she was pinning all the blame on her!

They even fabricated such despicable things!

Su Ying'er was unaware that the person she was slandering was right in front of her. She pretended to recall something and said, "I heard my senior sister say something to him, that she would never be separated from him again, and that he shouldn't have used the Gu poison on my fifth senior brother, which made her feel guilty all this time."

She looked remorseful. "I was so scared that I made a noise and they found out. To buy time, my fourth senior brother took me and we escaped. But for some reason, when he woke up, he not only didn't remember anything, but he also thought I was the murderer."

"What else could it be!"

Hearing Ye Li being so intimate with the stranger, Lu Ziting was furious. "Ye Li must have conspired with that person to cast a curse on you, just like they did with Xiao Wu!"

Mo Hannian was skeptical. "Are you telling the truth?"

Su Ying'er looked hurt. "Fifth Senior Brother, you...you don't believe me?" She raised her hand and swore, "If I've uttered even half a lie, may I be torn apart by five horses and die without a burial..."

Lu Ziting immediately covered her mouth and gently scolded, "Don't talk nonsense."

Hearing Su Ying'er's solemn oath, Mo Hannian's doubts softened.

"Could it be that my Gu poison is really related to Ye Li?" He immediately denied his guess. "No, if it were really as you said, and Senior Sister had been in close contact with that person, how could her inner core have been extracted?"

"Well... I don't know either."

Su Ying'er said with a troubled expression, "But I always feel that everything that has happened recently is very strange. First, my fourth senior brother was murdered, then my sixth senior brother lost all his cultivation, my eldest senior brother and I have been haunted here, and now even my fifth senior brother's room has a notebook that has appeared out of nowhere..."

Under her deliberate guidance, Lu Ziting followed her train of thought and said, "You mean, Ye Li has been using evil magic to retaliate against us?"

Wen Yao denied it without even thinking, "How could that be? Ah Li is an upright person and would never associate with evil spirits. Besides, we've all seen that inner core, and the aura on it is Ah Li's."

He looked at Su Ying'er, his gaze probing, "Junior Sister, could it be that you misheard, or mistook someone for someone else?"

Lu Ziting said with dissatisfaction, "Ying'er has already sworn an oath, don't you believe our junior sister?"

Wen Yao wasn't buying it. He said calmly, "I remember that Senior Brother also swore to protect A-Li for the rest of his life, or else he would suffer the torment of being burned alive."

He glanced at the arm he was holding Su Ying'er with, "It's clear that vows aren't entirely trustworthy."