"Sister, I'm back!"
"Huh?"
As soon as Shui Meiyin landed, she noticed that the atmosphere was very wrong.
Shui Yingyue's eyebrows were furrowed, and her aura was obviously confused. Shui Qianheng stood to one side, his face solemn.
However, there was no trace of Yun Che around.
"What happened?" Shui Meiyin asked, suddenly having a bad feeling in her heart.
“I should be the one asking you this.” Shui Yingyue let out a sigh: “What happened to Yun Che?”
Shui Meiyin stepped forward quickly and grabbed Shui Yingyue's sleeve: "Sister, answer me first! What happened?"
Shui Yingyue's expression was complicated, with confusion, worry, and even... anger!
"He...first used a rather despicable method to make me lose my mind, then took the opportunity to use a strange method to capture my soul, and then asked me a few questions."
"......!!" Shui Meiyin's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
"What...is the problem?" Her voice became weaker.
Shui Yingyue's soul power was strong after all. After she calmed down, she recalled everything that happened during the short period of time when her soul was captured: "He asked exactly the question you reminded me of several times in the past two years... Did you leave when he was in a coma?"
Shui Meiyin's lips trembled noticeably.
"How...do you answer?" Shui Meiyin asked in a daze.
She knew about Yun Che’s Xuan Gang soul-stealing ability… and knew that in that state, the person whose soul was being seduced could not possibly lie.
"I haven't left... answer truthfully." Shui Yingyue said: "He asked at the end whether you reminded us to lie and say that you left for a short time, and I answered yes."
Shui Meiyin: “…”
"He asked me the same question." Shui Qianheng said in a deep voice: "But I answered according to your previous reminders that you had left for a short time and I didn't know where you went... But it seems that he didn't believe me."
"Meiyin," Shui Qianheng said solemnly as he watched his daughter's face gradually turn pale, "What exactly does this question relate to? Can't you tell me now? Yingyue said that when he left just now, he was completely distraught... I simply can't believe that there is anything else in the world that could make him become like that."
"..." Shui Meiyin moved her lips for a long time before she uttered a very soft voice: "Did he ask... whether I had left before he was sent to Liuguang Realm?"
"No." Shui Yingyue answered without hesitation.
His already pale face turned even paler.
"I understand... I'll go find him first, don't follow me."
Shui Meiyin left in a daze... Her appearance was exactly the same as Yun Che's just now.
Shui Qianheng and Shui Yingyue looked at each other in silence for a long time.
…………
Under a tall, dry old tree, Yun Che sat there quietly, gazing into the distance.
Occasionally, a few dead leaves fell, but before they could get close to his body, they were shattered and expelled by the chaotic and disordered aura.
Shui Meiyin bit her lip and walked slowly towards the place. Her feet stepped on the thick dead leaves, making an unsettling sound.
“Yun Che…Brother.” She stood beside Yun Che, looking at his profile and called softly.
Yun Che did not turn his head. He looked ahead and said in a hoarse voice, “You gave me enough explanations for all the doubts and inconsistencies. You even wanted to swear a poisonous oath... and then gave me a reason that I could not refute.”
"But you know why I still can't convince myself?"
"Because, everything else is just 'suspicion', just 'possibility', but there is one thing that I am absolutely sure you are lying."
"..." Shui Meiyin bit her lips even tighter. She knew what Yun Che was talking about... She even started to fill this "gap" early on, but in the end...
Yun Che continued, “Back then, when you explained everything to me, you clearly told me that after I had fallen into the status of a demon and was being hunted by the entire world, you immediately went to the Blue Pole Star without telling my father and sister, and moved the Blue Pole Star to the Southern Region… Afterwards, I was sent to the Glazed Light Realm while I was in a coma.”①
"But I know that there is no way that Blue Pole Star could have been transferred at that time."
"I...I..." Shui Meiyin was about to cry. She knew that at this moment, all her excuses were pale and powerless.
“The scene that Wuxin engraved with the Hengying Stone was in Floating Cloud City.” Yun Che said slowly. It was a place that he absolutely could not mistake. “As a small city in the lower realm, Floating Cloud City has a very strict and frequent alternation of day and night.”
“Back then, the time for the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor to leave was set by her herself, and she informed me of it very early on. I remember it very clearly. That time roughly corresponds to the midnight of the Profound Sky Continent.”
"It was dark in Liuyun City at that time."
“Then something strange happened. As soon as the Heaven Smiting Demon Emperor left me, I was already in a desperate situation. Then, Qianying knocked me unconscious with the Void Illusion Stone and teleported me away… I happened to meet Luo Changsheng and Huo Poyun who were traveling with me.”
"I have seen Luo Changsheng's memory that was sealed by the Sword Lord through Wu Yao's Soul Robbery, and thus I know that I was saved by Huo Poyun. I also know when and where they met me in a coma."
"With Huo Poyun's cultivation, it will take about an hour to send me from that star field to the Glazed Light Realm at full speed."
"At that time, the Profound Sky Continent had just entered the Chou hour, and Floating Cloud City was still dark. Even though... Huo Poyun deliberately slowed down his speed by half and took two hours to get me there, the night in Floating Cloud City still hadn't dissipated at that time."
"If you had removed the Blue Pole Star before I was sent to the Glazed Light Realm, then the vision engraved by Wuxin should have been in the dark night."
"But the scene in the Eternal Shadow Stone is in daylight."
Whether it was the purple light, Wuhen's passing through the soul-attaching barrier, or the Huanxin Glazed Jade...all the doubts, flaws, and inconsistencies could be explained, and they could make one believe...
However, a convinced lie can overturn all explanations and beliefs.
Her pale lips were almost bitten to the point of bleeding, but Shui Meiyin did not refute a word.
Even if she used the extremely ridiculous and absurd reason of "Maybe Huo Poyun took two or three hours to take a detour and take a nap" to argue, it would be useless. Because many things can be covered up, but the time when Yun Che was sent to Liuguang Realm is too easy to confirm.
Shui Qianheng knew, Shui Yingyue knew, Huo Poyun knew... As long as Yun Che was willing, he could even know the exact moment.
"On the way here, I even persuaded myself again and again that this lie might just be a slip of the tongue or a momentary memory disorder... You actually moved to the Blue Pole Star after I arrived in the Glazed Light Realm."
"In order to prove this extremely reluctant thought, I even stayed to ask your father for confirmation... He gave me the answer I wanted: You left for a short time while I was unconscious."
“But…” Yun Che closed his eyes and spoke in a deep and slow voice, “My Meiyin is really too smart and too careful. Back then, you knew nothing about the Profound Sky Continent, but in the past two years, you have been traveling to the Profound Sky Continent frequently and are familiar with its various characteristics and past. You are also aware of the frequency of its alternation of day and night, and you also know that no matter the climate, seasonal changes, or alternation of day and night, they are almost unchanged from when it was in the east of the Eastern Region.”
"Plus, the things buried deep in your heart will always make you subconsciously alert."
"As smart as you are, you will probably find this is a flaw at some point. Because when the Blue Pole Star was moved, almost everyone in Floating Cloud City witnessed the phenomenon, and they all remember that it was daytime... But when you compared the time you described, you found that it was the dark night of Floating Cloud City."
"If I realize this one day for some reason, it will be hard for you to explain."
"Even if the possibility is very low, given your personality, you will still...find ways to correct the mistake. For example, quietly shift the time you were transferred to the Blue Pole Star to the time when I was unconscious."
"So I thought... your father's answer might be the result of your correction. So, I used the Xuan Gang to capture the soul and questioned your sister."
Shui Meiyin already knew the result.
Back then, when Shui Meiyin told Yun Che everything, she specifically mentioned that she was transferred to the Blue Pole Star “before”, in order to not leave any loopholes... because she knew very well that during the time Yun Che was unconscious in the Glazed Light Realm, she did not leave for a single step, and Shui Qianheng and Shui Yingyue were always by his side.
Unexpectedly, this became the biggest flaw.
The corrections she made consciously afterwards, under Yun Che's profound energy, became irrefutable proof of her lies.
"The Blue Pole Star couldn't have been moved before I was sent to the Glazed Light Realm... You didn't leave even once while I was unconscious in the Glazed Light Realm... but you specifically reminded your father and sister to lie to me if I asked..."
Yun Che took a long breath: "Meiyin, at this point, do you still want to... continue to deceive me?"
Shui Meiyin’s petite body slowly squatted down beside Yun Che. She hugged Yun Che’s arms, her delicate shoulders twitching slightly, and she was unable to utter a word for a long time.
When the lies she, her sister, and her father had concocted were exposed, she no longer had any room for excuses... not even for playing dumb.
Yun Che turned around and gently placed his hands on Shui Meiyin’s shoulders: “Tell me, the person that the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor gave the Qiankun Spear and the World-Defying Heavenly Book to… was Xia Qingyue… right? Tell me!”
Shui Meiyin didn’t dare to look into Yun Che’s eyes. She shook her head vigorously and said in an almost begging voice, “Brother Yun Che, please don’t ask anymore, okay… Just think of all this as a dream… She is still the bad woman who wants to kill you… wants to harm you… okay…”
“Kill me… harm me…” Yun Che’s voice began to tremble, and his expression gradually became more painful: “She is Qingyue… How could she kill me… How could she harm me…”
He always clearly remembered that Xia Qingyue had tried to kill him twice… once in front of the Chaos Wall, and once outside the destroyed “Blue Pole Star”. Both times, she made a somewhat strange move:
He summoned the Zique Divine Sword, and an exceptionally strong Zique divine light condensed on the sword body.
At that time, Xia Qingyue was the powerful Moon God Emperor, and he was just a God King. If Xia Qingyue wanted to kill him, she could do it with just a flick of her finger. She didn’t need the Purple Que Divine Sword at all, and there was no need to gather such a strong Purple Que divine power.
At that time, everyone had only one feeling, that is, Xia Qingyue was using this to show her determination to kill the demon and completely break off ties with Yun Che.
We must use the most decisive force to destroy him in an instant without leaving even a trace.
but……
If she was the owner of the Qiankun Thorn...
If...she released such a strong purple divine light in order to cover up the scarlet light when the Qiankun Thorn released its divine power...
Her goal was to send him away with the power of Qiankun Thorn at the moment when the purple light from the Zique Divine Sword completely submerged him!
The Qiankun Thorn’s spatial transmission was silent and traceless. When the power of the Purple Palace Divine Light erupted and dissipated, facing Yun Che’s disappearance, everyone would think that he had been reduced to ashes under the Purple Palace Divine Power.
He can hide and grow quietly in another space while everyone thinks he is dead.
At this moment, recalling what she said before killing him twice, it was clear... that it contained a deep meaning:
…………
“Yun Che, I am also responsible for your fall to this state today. However, since you are a demon, don’t blame me for being heartless. However, considering the love we once had as husband and wife, I will let you die without any pain… [I won’t even leave behind a corpse]!”
“When you reach the [afterlife], think carefully about what you should do in your next life!”
…………
"[Hell after death], will you become a wailing evil ghost, or a demon god who swears revenge... I am looking forward to it. Then... die!"
…………
But at that time, facing her cold and heartless words, he felt only pain and resentment in his heart.
However, her two "killing" attempts were interrupted at the moment when the purple divine light fell.
Once, he was sent away directly by Qianye Ying'er, whose slave seal had not yet been solved, through the Void Illusion Stone.
Once, he was interrupted by Mu Xuanyin who was hiding in the dark.
“Tell me, tell me quickly… is it her?” Yun Che’s words gradually lost control: “She is the owner of the Qiankun Thorn… It was she who engraved the Illusionary Heart Glazed Shadow Jade a long time ago… It was she who transferred the Blue Pole Star… It was her… It was all her, right?”
"I..." Shui Meiyin shook her head, tears falling from her eyes: "No... don't ask... I can't... I can't say... I..."
Everything had clearly been settled, so why did a projection like that appear… and why did that projection have a flash of purple divine light for a moment!
The name Xia Qingyue had always been a nightmare in Yun Che's heart that he didn't want to touch.
And it was this nightmare that never dissipated that caused Yun Che to burst out with a terrifyingly strong obsession to explore the shadows in that instant, completely detonating the doubts that were previously invisible and not even flaws...
It was faster, more violent and more thorough than the worst case scenario she had ever imagined.
【①】：Chapter 1818: The Truth
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
