Chapter 107 Misplacement I'm not a pushover.
"What do you mean by that?"
Zhan Yao, Xu Lian and others immediately became alert and stared at her in surprise and suspicion. Zhan Yao was even more straightforward and drew her sword like Song Xinghe and pointed it at Mu Fuyue.
"If you don't explain clearly, I will immediately chop off your Earth Lotus Lantern!"
The lotus lamp is the temporary residence of the soul. Once it is destroyed, the soul will have nowhere to rely on. No matter how well it was maintained before, it will not escape the fate of being reduced to ashes.
Without having time to think, Mu Fuyue felt scared instinctively and quickly stepped back, trying to avoid her sword, but Zhou Su also reacted, quickly drew her sword, stood behind her, and blocked her retreat.
"You guys!" She was a little flustered, looking around, and finally placed her hope on Chu Ye and Song Xinghe.
But the two of them just stared at her blankly, no one knew what they were thinking. Even Song Xinghe hadn't put down his sword yet.
Mu Fuyue's pupils shrank and her heart began to sink.
Just as she was racking her brains to think of how to escape, the tightly closed door was pushed open by a strong force from the outside, and a dark figure stood against the light, blocking out a large area of sunlight.
It’s Cang Yan.
"Brother Achen!" Mu Fuyue called him hurriedly like a drowning person grabbing a piece of driftwood beside him. Before she could say anything else, her eyes were filled with tears.
Cang Yan glanced at her with a calm and soothing look, then slowly stepped into the back hall, walked in front of her, protected her behind him, and turned to face those pairs of aggressive eyes.
"Okay, enough of the noise, it's time for you to get out."
After all, he was the Lord of the Demon Realm. With just one sentence, he revealed his imposing aura. Then, he raised his hand slightly, forcing the swords in the hands of Song Xinghe, Zhan Yao and Zhou Su to lower.
"Demon Lord," Chu Ye took a deep breath and frowned at him, trying to sober him up. "She made a big mistake and should be punished. She—the real her—may not be what we thought she was all those years ago."
Ever since Mu Fuyue was able to transform, this guess has been hidden in his mind. However, due to years of friendship, he has deliberately ignored it and was unwilling to believe it. Now, the bloody reality is in front of him, which makes him suddenly wake up and realize that he has been deceived by her innocent and kind appearance for so many years.
I originally thought that Cang Yan would be the same and his attitude would change after hearing it, but who knew that he would remain calm and indifferent.
"So what?"
They were all stunned for a moment, then slowly realized what was happening. That was the Demon Lord, unlike these "righteous" cultivators who always pursued benevolence, righteousness, and morality.
As expected, he continued, "Whether she's 'good' or 'bad' is none of my business. I don't believe in your immortal sect's tricks. I only know how to repay a favor."
Mu Fuyue stopped behind him. After hearing what he said, her originally stiff and tense face finally relaxed, as if she had finally found a safe place. She smiled again and said, "Brother Achen, thank you so much." The others stared at the two of them, frowning.
They all forgot that Cang Yan was different from others. He was not deceived by Mu Fuyue's mask of gentleness and kindness, but had indeed received her favor.
Only Xu Lian stood there and thought carefully, then took out a thin booklet from her mustard seed bag and began to read it carefully.
"What's wrong? Is there anything else?" Zhan Yao asked when he saw her actions.
Xu Lian was startled, and paused for a moment. She looked up at her, a complex mixture of guilt and unconcealed joy in her eyes. But it was only for a moment before she lowered her head again and flipped through the book in her hand again.
"I had my family send someone to investigate the Mu sisters' past affairs, and here are the results. I've read through it several times before and didn't find anything wrong, but today..."
Today, she discovered that this senior sister might have more secrets than she imagined.
Mu Fuyue's heart, which had finally been at ease, was once again lifted. She sighed irritably, walked to Cang Yan's side, looked up at him, and said softly, "Brother Chen, I'm tired. Can you tell them to leave?"
Cang Yan didn't hesitate at all, and didn't even want to say a word. He raised his hand and was about to throw them all out.
But at this moment, Xu Lian suddenly shouted, "Demon Lord, have you never doubted it?"
Cang Yan's hand paused in mid-air. He turned his head to look at her expressionlessly without saying a word.
"Brother Achen!" Mu Fuyue became more and more nervous and urged again.
Before Cang Yan could speak, Mu Fuyun said, "Why rush? What's the harm in letting her finish?"
"I never doubted it, but why would someone who, for his own selfish desires, destroyed his own sister's meridians and bones and transferred them to his own body be so kind as to save a completely unrelated person?"
Xu Lian's words truly touched upon what Cang Yan cared about most.
Mu Fuyue couldn't stand it any longer. She stared at her in horror and shook her head desperately: "Stop talking! Brother Achen, kick her out!"
This attitude has already revealed its clues.
Cang Yan didn't move, but just looked at Xu Lian with a scrutinizing gaze.
"Rumor has it that Senior Sister Mu rescued the Demon Lord on her way from her hometown to Tianyan to study and learn the Dao. I calculated correctly; Senior Sister Mu would have been twelve years old that year. But someone my family sent found a medical practitioner from the town where she lived. He explained that a frail, introverted girl, no more than ten years old, had asked him to treat a bloodied and unconscious young cultivator. Seeing that the girl couldn't afford the spirit stones, and that the cultivator was half-human, half-demon, his injuries were so severe that even a huge price wouldn't guarantee his recovery, he refused, telling her that the man was born a demon and shouldn't be saved. The girl didn't say anything, but knelt outside the door for two or three hours, her knees rotten. Unable to bear the pain, he gave her a high-grade Gu Yuan Dan."
"'Thin and introverted', 'less than ten years old'..." Zhou Su quickly grasped the key points.
"That's right. I originally thought that the medical practitioner had made a mistake due to the long time that has passed. But thinking about it today, I'm afraid that may not be the case," Xu Lian said.
"What do you mean by not certain? He just remembered it wrongly! Back then, it was me who saved Brother Achen and took him all the way to seek medical treatment. The first thing he saw when he woke up was me. How could this be false?" Mu Fuyue denied it repeatedly. This was her bottom line and she couldn't let it go.
"It's you when you wake up, but who knows if it was you before you woke up?" Zhan Yao said coldly.
Xu Lian flipped through the booklet in her hand again and pointed to a place. "When you left home, the Mu family's parents had already passed away. You and your sister left together, but when you arrived at Tianyan, you were the only one there. Where did Mu Fuyun go?"
Zhou Su thought about it and felt that it was a bit far-fetched. She looked at Mu Fuyun and said, "But if that's the case, you should have known everything. At the age of eight or nine, you should have been able to remember things. There's no reason to deliberately hide it and let her rely on it for so many years."
Mu Fuyun shook his head: "There are many past events that I no longer remember."
"How could that be?" Song Xinghe asked.
Mu Fuyun didn't know how to explain it, but Cang Yan, who had been lost in thought since a while ago, answered his question.
"Because she has been a member of the Hehuan Sect and practiced its secret techniques. This technique can bewilder the mind, and for disciples with shallow cultivation, their past memories will become blurred and confused."
In this way, confrontation becomes impossible.
Mu Fuyue opened her mouth and was about to speak when Cang Yan took the lead.
"However, since we can find the medical practitioner, we can probably find the others as well. It's not possible that they all got it wrong. If we ask a few more, we can definitely find out."
Mu Fuyue paused for a moment as the words were about to come out of her mouth, and her heart suddenly turned cold.
At that time, she was still young and didn't know how to do everything without leaking a trace. It was only after she entered the inner sect of Tianyan and became the direct disciple of the head master, and gradually became a female cultivator respected and loved by everyone in Tianyan, that she remembered to solve this matter.
She never thought that anyone would doubt it. After all, at that time, no one even knew that she had a younger sister.
Mu Fuyun is a solitary and stubborn person. He has remained silent for so many years. Even if he knew that the person he saved had become famous, increasingly powerful, and had become the lord of the Demon Realm, he would not mention it in front of anyone.
But Mu Fuyue was worried. After much thought, she took the initiative to write a letter to Mu Fuyun, telling her about the existence of the Hehuan Sect and hinting to her that even female cultivators with poor roots may be able to advance.
Based on her understanding of her sister, she was certain that she would choose to take a gamble and join the Hehuan Sect to give it a try. The result was exactly as she expected.
She had never thought of being suspected, let alone looking for those people who were not closely related to her back then. As long as Mu Fuyun didn't say anything, this matter would never be known...
"It seems my guess is about 80% correct." Xu Lian smiled, revealing her usual slightly sarcastic expression. "Even this so-called 'favor' was snatched from my sister. For so many years, it turns out the Demon Lord has been grateful to the wrong person."
Cang Yan's body stiffened, and he looked at Mu Fuyun inexplicably, feeling a little strange, embarrassed and uncomfortable. Then he looked away, as if he didn't dare to face her. After a moment, a lingering sense of guilt surged in his heart.
"Mu Fuyue," he turned all his complicated emotions into anger and looked at Mu Fuyue's already terrified face, "You've been lying to me for the past ten years."
At this moment, the last piece of driftwood was pulled out of his arms.
Mu Fuyue was extremely flustered. Facing the pairs of unfriendly eyes in the room, she felt that she had nowhere to hide. She even gave up on refuting or denying and simply agreed with Xu Lian's guess.
"Why, all of you are now wishing I hadn't survived at all, but had been reduced to ashes long ago, right?" Her eyes were red, and her embarrassed and flustered face slowly twisted into resentment and hatred. "You were so kind to me before, and in the blink of an eye, you turned your face against me. Were all the things you said before lies? What's the difference between you and me!"
"How can we compare this!" Song Xinghe clenched his fists, his heart filled with grief, and suppressed his words, "I have always been sincere to you, Senior Sister. Until just now, I didn't want to believe it, but you, you..."
"You were the one who lied first," Chu Ye closed his eyes and shook his head. "If you had known this would happen, why would you have done such a sinister thing?"
Cang Yan didn't care at all who made the mistake first. He only knew that he was extremely angry, and this anger should be borne by the culprit.
More than ten years of gratitude had been misplaced, which was more unbearable for him than betrayal.
And the culprit is undoubtedly Mu Fuyue.
"You deserve to die."
He gritted his teeth, raised one hand, and was about to strike her with a palm.
It is just a soul that has been slowly nurtured. Compared with ordinary people, it is extremely fragile. It will be annihilated by this palm.
"No, you can't!"
"stop!"
Two voices sounded at the same time, one was sharp and shrill, naturally it was Mu Fuyue, and the other was cold and calm, without any emotion, it was Mu Fuyun.
Cang Yan paused, withdrew his hand, and looked at Mu Fuyun in confusion.
The others all turned to look at her, and Zhan Yao was even more furious: "Mu Fuyun, this is not the time to be a pushover!"
Mu Fuyun smiled at the three of them, and when he turned to the other three, he immediately returned to his expressionless and indifferent attitude.
"I'm not a pushover, but Mu Fuyue truly cannot die," she said calmly, a strange sneer flashing in her eyes. "Two senior brothers, we swore our blood oath right here. Have you all forgotten?"
The three of them had sworn here that they would do their best for Mu Fuyue's return, no matter what the cost.
Chu Ye and Song Xinghe felt a chill on their backs almost at the same time.
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