Drunken Flower (VIII)

Although the rain was getting heavier, Su Xuan's words were particularly clear.

Even though they had been close so many times, he had already told her his feelings, but this was the first time he said it so bluntly.

Sandy looked at him, and his heart was very quiet.

Because this time he didn't say it in his heart, he used words to make her hear it clearly.

"I like a girl, and I want to marry her and stay with her forever."

Su Xuan looked down at Liu Ying in his arms. Liu Ying had told him this many times before.

——"Our Xiaoxuan doesn't need to be a demon king, nor does he need to marry a woman of noble status. Just like her, mother has no objection. Mother will treat Xiaoxuan's wife like her own daughter."

She did not live to see this day.

If she were still alive, she would be very kind to Sandy and would become Sandy's second mother.

Su Xuan smiled softly with his eyes curled, lowered his head and rubbed Liu Ying's cheek, tears falling.

"Mother, this is the girl I want to marry. She is the only one I will love."

Sandy's lowered hands trembled slightly, her throat felt dry, and her previously regular heartbeat became irregular.

Su Xuan's mood stabilized quickly. The rain here was too heavy, and even with the spiritual power shield, he could still hear the sound of the rain.

"Dade, shall we go?"

Sandy was caught off guard and looked him in the eye.

She looked away in a panic, stammering, "Oh, okay."

She didn't dare look into his eyes. Su Xuan's eyes always spoke sweet words, words that were very sweet but would make her blush.

Sandy turned around and coughed softly: "Um, are we going back to the Demon Palace?"

"Well, didn't you burn down the palace?"

“…That’s right.”

Su Xuan smiled and said, "Well done."

Sandy nodded dumbly: "Well... let's go first?"

"good."

She walked in front, and Su Xuan followed behind her holding Liu Ying.

Sandy added a layer of sound insulation on the outside of the spiritual power shield, so it is very quiet here.

The bodies outside were cleared away by Liu Lixue, but Sandy thought it was more likely that they were burned by fire.

Sandy asked, "What about the guards of the mansion? Did you kill them all?"

Su Xuan sneered: "Those who try to stop me will be killed, and those who want to run will be ignored."

Sandy nodded: "I think so too. The guards in the palace are loyal to the royal family. Those who were willing to surrender were not killed, but those who were determined to stop me were killed."

"There's no need to feel sorry. The people in the palace have been killing people and doing things in the demon world. They are Su Xiu's subordinates and are not loyal to the demon world. They will do whatever Su Xiu tells them to do. They have more lives on their hands than you. They have been following Su Xiu and have been exploiting the people's wealth over the years. Many civilians have been bullied by them. They will stir up trouble wherever they go. They were also involved in the war in your fairy world. They are just the remnants of evil."

Su Xuan stopped and looked at the sword cultivator beside him, and said, "Dai Dai, we have different standpoints. The demons in the palace are different from the demons in other cities in the demon world. They don't listen to my orders. If you knew how many evil things they have done with Su Xiu over the years, you would only regret letting some people go. You are protecting the millions of people in the demon world by bloodbathing the royal family."

"...Yes, I understand."

Sandy knew that the royal family was as warlike as the Twelve Palaces and often instigated fights. Most of the frictions with the other three realms were caused by the royal family, and in the end Su Xuan had to clean up the mess.

But Su Xuan is not warlike, does not get involved in the affairs of the other three realms, and will not argue with them.

Su Xiu was cruel and tyrannical, and the royal family did not take civilians seriously, and they did a lot of evil things.

But Su Xuan loves his people. Although the little fox has a bad temper, he is very protective of his people.

If the people of the demon world trust him, he will do his best to protect them, govern the demon world in an orderly manner, and give them the peace and tranquility that the other three worlds desire.

Su Xuan walked side by side with her. Sang Dai raised her eyes to look at him and suddenly realized that she had too many misunderstandings about this mortal enemy in the past.

He is actually a very good demon.

Sandy looked away and chuckled.

Su Xuan is a little fox who is arrogant, conceited, childish and likes to act coquettishly, but is also very tough on the outside but soft on the inside.

Liu Lixue looked back and saw her master holding Liu Ying, with a girl with a gentle smile beside him.

He couldn't help but laugh, turned around and led the way, waving his folding fan.

After Sandy came, everything seemed to be getting better.

He began to understand why his master liked Miss Sang.

No one would dislike such a strong and gentle person.

Everyone will like Sandy.

***

As soon as we returned to the Demon Palace, the rain stopped.

The courtyard was already filled with water and fallen leaves. When they came in, they saw Cuishao sweeping the floor with a broom.

Sang Dai was a little surprised: "Cui Shao, why haven't you rested yet at this hour?"

Cui Shao bowed: "Madam hasn't come back yet, I can't sleep."

Sandy was stunned.

Cui Shao looked at Liu Ying in Su Xuan's arms and wiped the tears from her eyes: "Finally, they are all back."

She looked cute when she was crying. Sandy and Su Xuan looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Su Xuan carried Liu Ying to a room at the back. Liu Lixue shook her head and followed him in.

Sandy touched Cuishao's head and took the broom from her hand: "Go to bed, it's too late."

Cui Shao stopped crying, bowed and said, "Yes, Madam, go to bed early too."

Sang Dai watched Cui Shao leave, then turned and walked towards the room that Su Xuan had just entered.

She opened the door and was greeted by a gust of cold wind.

It's a bit cold in here.

This room has always been closed. Sandy is not a curious person. She knows that the room is closed because Su Xuan doesn't want others to see it, so she has never been here.

It was obviously a bedroom. The decoration style was very similar to a woman's chamber. It was not as luxurious as Su Xuan's previous bedroom. This bedroom was obviously more elegant.

The master couch was covered with a soft silk quilt, and Su Xuan placed Liu Ying on it.

"This is the house I left for my mother when I built the Demon Palace. I thought that if I bring her back in the future, she would have a place to stay."

Sandy stood behind him.

Su Xuan sat beside the couch, his eyes fixed on Liu Ying who had his eyes tightly closed.

Liu Lixue handed over the ice box: "Tian Yuxue sent it. This is Madam Liu's spirit."

Su Xuan took the ice box.

The soul inside is dimly lit. The person has been dead for so many years. His blood is too weak and his spiritual power is low. His temperament is too gentle. He is not a fierce person, and even if he is dead, he cannot become a ghost cultivator.

Liu Lixue sighed and said, "My Lord, I will go back first."

"Um."

Liu Lixue nodded to Sang Dai, turned and left.

This time the royal family was massacred, and there were still many aftermath matters that Liu Lixue needed to deal with.

Su Xuan didn't move, his silver hair fell down on his side, and Sandy could not see his expression clearly.

She walked forward and whispered, "Su Xuan, I have sent a message to Tan Huai, asking him to come tomorrow."

The little fox raised his eyes and pinched the swordsman's face.

"Daidai, go and have some rest. Are you tired tonight?"

Sandy looked at the blood all over her body, pursed her lips slightly, and nodded: "Well, you... accompany your mother."

I originally wanted to tell him to go to bed early.

But based on her understanding of Su Xuan, he probably won't sleep tonight.

Give them time to be together.

Sang Dai touched Su Xuan's silver hair and lowered her voice: "I'm going to rest. Call me if you need anything."

"Okay, Dede."

Sandy turned and left the chamber, closing the door for them.

Only Su Xuan and Liu Ying were left in the bedroom.

Liu Ying lay quietly and calmly on the couch, the marks on his neck were so dark blue that they were almost purple.

Her long black hair was only pinned with the most ordinary hairpin, and even the clothes she wore were just simple ones from her palace. Since he left, Liuying never dressed herself up carefully again.

Su Xuan chuckled: "Stupid mother."

Liuying is clumsy and can't even make tea, but she can make very sweet pumpkin baked milk for her son.

Su Xuan put down the ice box, stood up and walked to the dressing table beside him, which was filled with a variety of jewelry.

He picked out a few of the best-looking ones, came and sat down next to Liuying, and pinned the hairpins and pearl pins into Liuying's bun.

After he finished all these things, he didn't know what to do.

For more than a hundred years, since he was taken away at the age of eleven, he has not seen Liuying again.

Su Xuan lowered his eyes, took her hand and put the bracelet on her.

"I wish you were still here. I'm rich now and you can buy me any jewelry you want."

Liuying's life was too short, and he died when he was only in his teens.

By now, even he is older than her.

He smiled and said, "You remember Liu Lixue, right? When I was a child, you wanted to take me fishing, but my father wouldn't let me. You secretly opened a small door for Liu Lixue and let him in to take me out to play. Later, when I seized the throne, only Liu Lixue was by my side. He saved me many times. If he had failed, we would both have died."

"But fortunately, you blessed me, and I still became the demon king and massacred the twelve palaces with blood."

"I am very grateful to him. I let him be the steward of Xingque Palace. His position is second only to the demon king. I am relieved to hand over all the affairs of the demon world to him. I have treated the peacock clan with care."

The house was very quiet and the rain outside had stopped long ago.

No one responded.

Su Xuan said to himself: "The girl who just left was called Sang Dai... Well, she saved my life. She is a very good person."

"She has a good temper, is very fierce in a fight, is very strong, but also very soft-hearted, and is particularly beautiful. I love her very much and want to stay with her for the rest of my life and make her my demon queen. I'm currently working on it, but I'm sure you'll have another daughter-in-law soon."

"I feel at ease when I see her. I used to go to her often, but she always beat me. However, I was not angry at all. The more she beat me, the more I felt that she was powerful, and the more I wanted to stand shoulder to shoulder with her. Over the years, this has spurred me on to practice Mahayana. Only when I am strong can she look at me and have the qualifications to walk by her side."

He chattered on and on about everything that had happened over the years.

Regardless of whether anyone responded or not, Su Xuan liked to talk to Liu Ying when he was a child. Liu Ying would listen patiently and then chat with him like a friend.

There is always a time to finish talking. When the sky brightened slightly and a ray of light came in through the half-open window, Su Xuan finally stopped.

Su Xuan sat beside the couch and looked at her for a long time without saying a word.

There was a soul-protecting formation set up here, and it was a little too cold. Even though he was a nine-tailed fox, he still felt a little cold.

Su Xuan stood up. He had been sitting for a long time. When he stood up, he was still a little dazed and needed a long time to calm down.

"I am sorry to bother you tonight. When Tan Huai comes to help you enter the reincarnation cycle, I will bury you in the mausoleum."

He tightened and loosened his hanging hands, and a forced smile appeared at the corners of his lips.

"It was my fault that I didn't protect you back then, mother. I have many people I care about now. I will protect the people of the demon world, I will protect my friends, and I will do my best to protect the girl I like with my life."

"The heavens want to kill her. If you are still alive, please protect her. This journey has been so difficult. I cannot afford to lose anyone else."

He opened the door.

There were two familiar people standing outside.

It was still dark when Tan Huai came here. When he saw him come out, he bowed to him.

"Amitābha, the dead are gone, demon king, do not trap yourself."

Su Xuan lowered his eyes and was polite to Tan Huai for the first time: "Thank you for the trouble."

Tan Huai shook his head and sighed: "It's what a poor monk should do."

He walked towards the bedroom and closed the door.

The power of Buddha surrounded the bedroom, and the distant sounds of Buddhist scriptures could be heard from inside.

Sandy changed into a blue dress, her whole body was clean and tidy, and all the blood and energy from the first half of the night were washed away.

Su Xuan came to her and pinched her face: "Are you not asleep?"

Sandy pursed her lips and shook her head: "No."

After she took a shower and changed her clothes, she waited for him here. Tan Huai also came not long ago, and the two of them stood waiting together.

The little fox smiled and asked: "Why don't you take a rest? You must be so tired after fighting."

“Not tired.”

"Aren't you sleepy?"

"Not sleepy."

Su Xuan raised his eyebrows, "So stubborn?"

Sandy smiled and replied: "Yeah, we, the Heaven-level spiritual root awakeners, are very stubborn."

He had told her so long ago.

Su Xuan suddenly leaned over and hugged Sang Dai in his arms.

His chin rested against her neck and he gently rubbed the side of Sandy's face.

"Dade, hug me then."

He wanted to hug her, very much.

Sandy hugged him back, "Su Xuan, we are both right."

Her voice was soft but firm: "It's not our fault that we are awakened to the Heavenly Rank. We did nothing wrong from the beginning to the end. It was the greed of those people that was wrong."

Su Xuan closed his eyes and smelled the fragrance on her body.

It seemed as if all those terrible things were nothing and he felt very at peace now.

He always felt safe with Sandy by his side.

***

In the dim torture chamber, the walls were covered with blood and the smell of blood was unpleasant.

Liu Lixue sat on a chair, fanning herself with a folding fan and looking up at the hanged prince.

Su Xiu was stabbed by Sang Dai with a sword. Apart from the eldest prince, the only one who was closest to Su Xiu was the second prince - Su Yang.

A man who takes human life lightly like Su Chengfeng.

"You haven't said it yet?" Liu Lixue asked with a smile, "Thirteen is really going to take action now. I didn't give you enough whippings just now. You know the rules of our Demon Palace. No one who enters the Law and Punishment Department will leave easily."

The hung man was trembling, his body covered in blood.

Liu Lixue glanced at Thirteen, who understood and turned around to get the knife.

The blade, as thin as a cicada's wing, spun between the fingers wearing black leather gloves, and the virtual image it created was of cutting Su Yang's heart.

He knew Su Xuan's rules. Once he entered the Law and Punishment Department, it would be good even if he was killed alive.

What's worse, after death, Thirteen would draw out their souls and throw them into the fire of karma to burn.

"I...I really don't know..."

Liu Lixue sighed.

Thirteen understood, the knife flashed, and flesh and blood fell to the ground.

The screams echoed throughout the torture chamber.

Liu Lixue frowned. This beautiful peacock didn't like this kind of place very much either. But this matter was too important. Thirteen was not good at talking and might not be able to get the result that Su Xuan wanted.

After shaving off the flesh on one palm, Liu Lixue tapped the fan and said, "Stop, stop, stop. I think he's going to faint."

How could Su Yang, who was used to a comfortable life, endure such punishment? He had always been the one to kill others, never the one to let others attack him.

Liu Lixue glanced at the man who was hanging his head and seemed to be dying, and asked, "The royal family has been razed by our Miss Sang, and the palace has been burned down. Think it over. Whether you tell the truth or not, there is no turning back. If you tell the truth, you may survive. If you don't tell the truth... Thirteen."

Thirteen nodded: "Yes."

Liu Lixue was very good at scaring people, and she knew that the best way to deal with such a spineless person was to make him feel painful first and then scare him.

"I say, I say!"

When Shisan picked up the knife and prepared to continue, Su Yang finally spoke.

Liu Lixue raised her eyebrows slightly and said with a smile: "You should have said it earlier. We in the Demon Palace are very gentle. We just want to scare you."

Shisan rolled his eyes at him, not knowing how Liu Lixue could have the nerve to say such things.

Liu Lixue sat up straight and asked, "Why did Su Xiu cooperate with the demon world?"

"...Because someone told my father...that this time we can kill Sang Dai and seize Kongsang Realm. The spiritual veins there will all belong to the demon world, and Su Xuan will die because of this in the future..."

"...Why are you so sure that you can kill Sandy?"

"…She said this was the will of heaven…"

Liu Lixue's pupils shrank: "...Why would you believe it?"

"She came to us for cooperation last year... She told us that there would be a flood in the southern city soon, and it came true; Su Xuan would enter the Mahayana realm after last winter, and it came true; my father's new wife would become pregnant in March this year, and it came true."

"Everything she said... came true."

"She said that Sandy would die in this battle, and that Su Xuan would go mad after coming out of seclusion and start a war with the immortal world. On the anniversary of Sandy's death one hundred years later—"

Su Yang raised his head, looked at Liu Lixue with cloudy eyes, and said, "He died under the thunderbolt."

Liu Lixue crushed the armrest.

Thirteen grabbed Su Yang by the collar and said, "How dare you curse the Lord!"

Su Yang shook his head: "I didn't lie... I didn't, everything I said is true."

Thirteen was about to hit someone, but Liu Lixue stopped him: "Don't do it."

Thirteen frowned and looked at him, only to find that the usually calm peacock had a pale face.

Liu Lixue took a deep breath.

Thirteen didn’t know the destiny that Lingyin was talking about, but Liu Lixue knew.

Lingyin said that Sandi would die in that battle, and that was her destiny.

No one knew about this except them. Lingyin was trapped in the Burning Heaven Realm and it was impossible for her to tell others. Then how did the royal family know, and how could they be sure that Sandi would die?

Therefore, what Su Yang just said was correct.

In the old destiny, Sang Dai died in the great war among the three realms a few months ago, and Su Xuan died one hundred years after Sang Dai's death, killed by a thunderbolt.

This is what destiny should have happened.

Liu Lixue had no doubt at all that if Sang Dai was really dead, Su Xuan would definitely go crazy and initiate a war.

Thirteen slowly loosened his hand and noticed that Liu Lixue was in a bad mood.

Liu Lixue tried to steady her breath and asked, "Who is the person you are working with?"

Su Yang panted and said with difficulty: "It's... a woman in a pink skirt, without spiritual roots, with a mortal body, followed by a young man in red, who obeys her orders..."

Liu Lixue almost crushed the folding fan in her hand.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Bifang, Shiyao."

Bifang listened to Shi Yao's words.

Not only the man behind the plot wanted to kill Sandy, but also Shi Yao.

The other person who cooperated with the man behind the scenes from beginning to end was Shi Yao.

***

Liuying has been dead for more than a hundred years, and her soul is already weak. She must be cleansed by Tan Huai's Buddhist ritual before she can be sent to the underworld. Otherwise, she cannot even pass the Samsara Seal with her current soul power.

This ceremony takes a long time.

Sang Dai and Su Xuan waited until the afternoon but Tan Huai still didn't come out.

Sandy drank a cup of tea and glanced at the little fox across from her: "How about we eat first?"

Su Xuan waited motionlessly for most of the day without even drinking a sip of water. Sang Dai felt sad just watching him.

The little fox's long eyelashes trembled slightly and he raised his eyes to look over.

Sandy covered her belly with her hands, her eyebrows slightly wrinkled: "Oh, I'm so hungry, Master Tan Huai will take a long time, how about Lord Demon King accompany me to eat first?"

Su Xuan turned his head away and chuckled, and the fox, who had been frowning all the time, finally smiled.

Sang Dai felt relieved and took his hand: "Let's go have dinner. Master Liu should be done with his work. I asked Cui Shao to make a lot of fried fish. He worked hard. Let's have dinner together."

Su Xuan held her hand: "Well, okay."

The little fox is very easy to coax and it takes almost no effort.

When they arrived at the dining room, they discovered that a peacock was already sitting at the table.

Cui Shao brought a large plate of crispy fish. In the past, Liu Lixue would have started eating without any hesitation. He always ignored Su Xuan and treated the Demon Palace as his own home. Anyway, Su Xuan would at most roll his eyes at him.

But at this time Liu Lixue's face was very gloomy, Cui Shao also noticed something was wrong, and waited on the side without daring to move.

Sang Dai's heart tightened, and she said to Cui Shao, "Cui Shao, go down and have a rest. You don't need to serve me here."

Cui Shao said: "Yes."

The door of the kitchen was closed, and Sandy said, "Master Liu, you can talk now."

She sat down at the table and Su Xuan sat down next to her.

Liu Lixue's face was gloomy, and he said, "The person who instigated the demon world and the devil world to cooperate was Shi Yao."

Su Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly: "What?"

Liu Lixue said: "The one who teamed up with the man in black was not Bi Fang, but Shi Yao. Bi Fang was just following Shi Yao's orders."

Sandy remained calm and asked, "Is there any solid evidence?"

"Su Yang said it himself. The most bizarre thing is not the relationship between Shi Yao and Bi Fang, but——"

Liu Lixue picked up the tea and drank it all, saying, "Shi Yao knows destiny. Not only Miss Sang's destiny, but she also knows the destiny of many people, including... the Lord's."

"My destiny?"

"Yes, it is your destiny. Miss Sang should have died in the battle a few months ago, but the Lord did not come out of retreat in time. By the time he came out, Miss Sang was already dead. The Lord went mad and started a war with the immortal world. The battle lasted for a full hundred years, and in the end... he died under the thunderbolt."

Su Xuan looked very calm, with only a slight frown on his face. Although this matter was strange, it was indeed something he would do. If Sang Dai really died, he would definitely destroy the fairyland.

But how did Shi Yao know this?

After Liu Lixue finished speaking, she realized that each of them was calmer than the other.

Su Xuan doesn't care at all. He takes his own life too lightly.

Sandy seemed to... already know it, otherwise, considering how much Sandy valued Su Xuan, she would not be so calm.

Su Xuan also found that a certain sword cultivator was a little too calm.

Both pairs of eyes fell on Sandy. The swordsman did not move, with his eyes lowered, not knowing what he was thinking.

Su Xuan's face gradually darkened: "Daidai, what do you know? When Senior Lingyin told you about your destiny, how did you know it in advance?"

Sang Dai and Su Xuan were still holding hands. The little fox was a little nervous and used a lot of force.

"Dade, speak."

Only then did Sandy react.

She looked at Su Xuan standing beside her.

When their eyes met, Sandy recalled the description of Su Xuan in the original book.

The little fox who had achieved the state of transcending tribulation died under the joint siege of Tiandao and Shen Ciyu.

He is dead.

Su Xuan is dead.

Sandy spoke slowly: "He was right. You died one hundred years after my death. On my death anniversary, you went to the back mountain of the Sword Sect... and were killed by Shen Ciyu and Tiandao. At that time, you had already achieved the Tribulation Realm."

The house was silent.

Liu Lixue asked: "...really?"

“Really.”

Again no one spoke.

This matter was so bizarre that they didn't know what to say.

After a long time, Sandy shed a tear, and the sadness and heartache that she had been holding back in her heart could no longer be suppressed.

She asked softly, "Su Xuan, you have already reached the Tribulation Realm, why do you want to accompany me to death?"

The other two people in the room were silent. Only Sandy was talking, asking questions that had been buried deep in her heart.

"I always beat you in the past. I beat you so badly that I forgot about you. I was so mean to you. Why did you do this for me?"

He became a warmongering tyrant, haunted by inner demons, and fought for a hundred years without stopping. He gave up resistance and died under the thunder, accompanying her in the underworld.

"Su Xuan, I was so bad to you. When I die you should laugh heartily and forget about me. You should just be a good demon king. Why did you end up like this?"

These were words she had been holding back for too long, and she thought she would never be able to say them again in her lifetime.

Liu Lixue turned her head away and drank several cups of tea in one breath, feeling heavy and uncomfortable in her chest.

These destinies were far beyond his understanding. In his understanding, Su Xuan was so powerful that no one could kill him, so how could he die under the thunder? However, he had to believe those words.

According to the destiny set by heaven for him, he would die a hundred years later.

Su Xuan held Jian Xiu in his arms, his breathing trembling slightly: "You never owe me anything, I did everything for you willingly, Dai Dai, those things never happened, and they will never happen again."

He hugged Sandy, knowing full well that she was emotionally broken.

It was unknown how long these things had been weighing on her mind. The deeper their relationship, the more suffocated Sandi felt. He had never known that she was hiding so many things.

The swordsman was apparently quiet, but even her breathing gripped Su Xuan's heart. He couldn't bear to see her sad, especially because of her guilt towards him. She had done nothing wrong from the beginning to the end.

He comforted her and looked into Liu Lixue's eyes.

Sandy adjusted her mood quickly, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and the little fox patted her back gently.

Some things will feel much better if you say them out loud.

She hugged Su Xuan's waist and said in a dull and hoarse voice: "Su Xuan, I have tried to tell you these things before, but I couldn't say them. But now I am not telling you these things on my own initiative. You discovered them on your own."

"When I was on the verge of death, I had more thoughts about... destiny."

She couldn't utter the word "plot".

Once, Sandy tried to speak out when no one was around, or even write down the plot of the book, but she couldn't do it. There was a force restricting her.

I can’t describe the plot, I can only flip through that thin book in my mind.

I couldn't write the plot either, as the words I just wrote were erased the next second.

Now she still can't say it, as if the book in her mind cannot be known by others but herself.

She could only change her way of speaking: "Those destinies are just as I said just now. If I die, you will die too. I don't know if you believe it or not, but that's the fact."

Having said that, no matter how bizarre this matter is, it was said by Sandy.

Sandy would never lie. No matter how absurd her words were, they were definitely the truth.

Su Xuan and Liu Lixue would only believe her.

Su Xuan said calmly: "Well, I understand. I believe you."

Sang Dai withdrew from Su Xuan's embrace, looked at Liu Lixue, and said, "Shi Yao may indeed have done this. I thought of a very strange thing that happened a long time ago."

She paused for a moment, then asked, "Did the Bifang clan live in the Northern Territory in the past?"

Liu Lixue nodded: "Yes."

"When will the tribe be destroyed?"

"…about 120 years ago."

Sang Dai's eyes darkened as she said, "I remember now. When Shi Yao was a teenager, she went to the Northern Territory and brought back a crane. However, the crane was seriously injured and nearly died. Because Shi Yao had picked it up, Sang Wenzhou spent a lot of elixirs to save it. Later, the crane recovered from its injuries and Shi Yao said she had released it. It was exactly one hundred and twenty years ago."

One hundred and twenty years ago, Northern Territory, Linghe.

Su Xuan asked: "Shi Yao saved Bi Fang?"

Sang Dai shook her head and denied, "It may not be that simple. Shi Yao went to the Northern Territory alone and did not tell anyone. She was weak and Sang Wenzhou would have arranged dozens of people to protect her when she went out. But she sneaked out by herself that time."

"Just as Master Liu said, Shi Yao knows destiny, and even knows the fate of many people. So I would guess that Shi Yao knew that the Bifang clan would be exterminated that day, and she deliberately went to save Bifang. She is not a kind-hearted person."

"She saved Bifang, probably because Bifang had something she wanted, or in other words, Bifang could help her a lot—"

Sang Dai looked at Su Xuan, she pursed her lips slightly and added in a deep voice:

"For example, in killing me."