I want her dead
Xu Yixue smiled in unison: "What? You think I'm still afraid of these things at this point?"
These words successfully broke the shell of Xiang Qi's perfect expression. She took two steps back: "No, impossible. Bai Da said that what cultivators fear most is the rules of heaven and earth. Last time you were able to come to my room silently with his brother, so you must be a cultivator like them... Even the Imperial Observatory wouldn't interfere, so how could you ask about it?"
"How could I possibly interfere?" Xu Yi sneered. "Because I'm Bai Da's friend! You've ruined Bai Da's life so badly, ruining his thousand years of cultivation, damaging his foundation so he can't even start over... His body hasn't fully recovered yet. I'm determined to get to the bottom of this!" Xu Yi mobilized the surrounding spiritual energy, approaching Xiang Qi step by step. Her anger turned her eyes red, and the surrounding dark gray malevolent energy was drawn to her, swirling around her and lingering, making her look both terrifying and eerie...
Xiang Qi retreated repeatedly until he reached the wall with nowhere left to go, yet he refused to compromise: "No, I don't believe it! I don't believe anyone would give up their years of hard-earned cultivation for someone else..."
"You know how difficult it is to cultivate for so many years?" Xu Yi sneered dramatically. "Didn't Bai Da lose everything because of you? He even gave you something as important as the Heart-Protecting Scale. Isn't Bai Da a cautionary tale?"
“I threatened him with my life to get him to give it to me; he didn’t do it voluntarily.”
"So... it really was you who tricked Bai Da into handing over the Heart-Protecting Scale, right?" Xu Yi's nose tingled, and she forced back her tears as she continued to ask, "And it was you who told Jiu Yin Bai Da and the others their location, right?"
Xiang Qi remained silent, staring intently at Xu Yi. Xu Yi suddenly shouted, "Speak!" The voice was so loud that Xiang Qi trembled involuntarily, but she quickly regained her composure and still did not speak.
"Speak! Speak! Did you personally deliver Bai Da to Jiu Yin? Speak..." The spiritual energy around Xu Yi began to surge and fluctuate with his emotions. The Imperial Study was much more secure due to the suppression of the dragon soul, but the Prime Minister's residence did not...
So when Xu Yi shouted, the whole house began to shake slightly, and dust from the eaves fell little by little, piling up between Xu Yi and Xiang Qi... but Xiang Qi remained silent...
Xu Yi found out, and thought that she would be concerned about divine punishment and wouldn't actually try to extract her memories...
"Heh... You only used Bai Da, yet you believed everything he said... I wonder if this is an insult or a consolation to Bai Da..." Xu Yi stopped wasting words. Today she had to know the truth, so she raised her hand and pointed at Xiang Qi's head...
Xu Yi's hand didn't stop when it touched Xiang Qi's head. She used her spiritual power to create a finger that pierced straight into Xiang Qi's head, heading towards that colorful memory...
The immense pain caused Xiang Qi to scream, his piercing scream echoing throughout the entire mansion... Wu Zi outside kept banging on the doors and windows, trying to persuade Xu Yi: "Xu Yi, you mustn't... Bai Da has already lost a thousand years of cultivation because of her, do you still want to let her continue to cause harm?"
"Today, I must know the truth... Even if the result is annihilation, I will not hesitate..." At this moment, Xu Yi only wants justice. If Xiang Qi is innocent, she can use all her spiritual power to repair Xiang Qi's soul, but if Xiang Qi deserves to die...
Then she must kill her!
Wu Zi had been trying to break Xu Yi's seal from the outside, but Xu Yi had transformed from a ghost into a body with bones, and was no longer the same as before. He was unable to break Xu Yi's seal, and Wu Zi was really worried that Xu Yi would be controlled by his obsession and cause a great disaster. He could only send a message to Yi Qing: "Senior brother, come to the Prime Minister's residence quickly, hurry."
A reply came from Yi Qing almost immediately: "What's wrong, Junior Brother?"
"It's Xu Yi, Xu Yi is extracting Xiang Qi's memories..."
"What?!" came a gasp from the other end. "Rashly extracting the memories of mortals can cause mental breakdown at best, and death at worst. You must quickly persuade her not to do such a thing!"
Wu Zi's voice was somewhat dejected: "I can't persuade her... Senior brother, come and help me break Xu Yi's seal, then we'll devise a plan..."
"Okay," the voice on the other end said, sounding a little more anxious. "Wait for me."
Outside, a palpable anxiety raged, but inside, Xu Yi remained remarkably calm and composed. Her spiritual energy had gradually approached the thread of memory shimmering with multicolored light, but when she tried to advance further, she was met with an insurmountable barrier… Xu Yi understood that this was the final layer of protection for the soul; once that barrier was broken, the memories would unfold… She intensified her spiritual energy, single-mindedly focused on breaking through this final layer…
At that moment, Yi Qing's voice came from outside: "Xu Yi, no, I'll teach you the Soul Searching Technique, so you can see Xiang Qi's memories without breaking through his spiritual aperture..."
As soon as Xu Yi had a thought, her mind relaxed, and the attacking spiritual power dissipated... She was covered in sweat. Although breaking through the spiritual aperture had a greater impact on Xiang Qi, constantly manipulating spiritual power like a drill to attack was also very tiring...
Xu Yi glanced at Xiang Qi, who was barely breathing on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "Fine, you teach me."
"Then open the door first, and I'll come in and teach you."
"Okay." Xu Yi waved his hand and removed the seal on the entire room. As soon as Yi Qing and Wu Zi entered, Xu Yi sealed the doors and windows again...
Yi Qing glanced at the tightly closed doors and windows, exchanged a look with Wu Zi, and then walked over to Xu Yi to tell her the incantation for the Soul Searching Technique... Xu Yi immediately used it. The Soul Searching Technique had a huge impact on a person's soul, just like breaking through a spiritual aperture. The mental pain caused Xiang Qi to scream again...
Xu Yi was focused solely on Xiang Qi and Bai Da's memories. Just as she finished reading them, she was struck on the back of the neck by a spell—a sleeping curse.
Wu Zi looked at Xu Yi, who had fallen to the ground, and helped her up, pulling her into his arms. He then looked at Yi Qing and said, "Senior brother, you take Xiang Qi away first. I'll wait here for her to wake up..."
"good."
Xu Yi woke up after less than fifteen minutes of unconsciousness. She sat up blankly from Wu Zi's arms, muttering softly, "You guys actually lied to me?"
The servants in the Prime Minister's residence had all been emptied when Yi Qing arrived. Now, only Xu Yi and Wu Zi remained in the entire mansion. It was so quiet that Wu Zi naturally heard Xu Yi's words. He patted Xu Yi's head and comforted her, "Xu Yi, I know you want to get justice for Bai Da, but you can't choose this method..."
Xu Yi remained dazed, her eyes devoid of any emotion. She gently looked up at Wu Zi and whispered, "Wu Zi, do you know? I saw it, I saw it. I saw that Xiang Qi's intention from the very beginning was to use Bai Da. Her affection for Bai Da was all an act... From the moment she approached Bai Da, she had already decided to give Bai Da to Jiu Yin..."
Looking into Xu Yi's lifeless eyes, Wu Zi felt a pang of pain in his heart, but could only continue to comfort her: "These are all fates, and there's a reason for them. You don't need to worry about them too much..."
“But Bai Da is my friend…” Xu Yi burst into tears, grabbing Wu Zi’s shoulders and saying sternly, “Her affair with A Xi was also a setup… Wu Zi, do you know? From the moment she first met Bai Da, she had laid out the whole plan… She discovered that Bai Da was extraordinary and had long wanted to enter the palace as empress, so she had Jiu Yin act as matchmaker for her and A Xi…”
At this point, Xu Yi broke down in tears: "She wanted to use intimate details to seduce the Crown Prince to solidify her position as Empress... but she didn't want to suffer the consequences of being haunted by a lustful ghost, so she lied and claimed to be possessed by a ghost, asking the Prime Minister to find someone to deal with it... Actually, there were others who could sever the karmic ties before Bai Da, but she didn't agree to any of them. She was after Bai Da from the beginning... Wu Zi..."
Xu Yi cried and then suddenly laughed: "Only that fool Bai Da would believe that Xiang Qi really wanted to live a good life with him, and willingly took on this evil karma for her... What do you mean by 'reaping what you sow'? It's all a scheme..." Xu Yi stood up excitedly and shouted: "It's all a scheme!"
Xu Yi's nose stung with tears, and her voice trembled: "Jiu Yin's power wasn't enough to refine Bai Da, so she tricked Bai Da into giving her the Heart-Protecting Scale... and then sold Bai Da to Jiu Yin... which led to everything that followed..." Xu Yi sobbed, "From the moment she discovered that Bai Da had feelings for her, she laid this inescapable trap... What about reaping what you sowed... what about divine punishment? What about karma? These were all just schemes, just schemes!"
Xu Yi looked at Wu Zi with disappointment: "And you, you and Yi Qing lied to me for someone like this?" Tears streamed down Xu Yi's face as she sobbed, "Bai Da was lied to by her from beginning to end... and you and Yi Qing lied to me because of her too..." Disappointment and heartbreak filled Xu Yi's entire body, and she covered her face and wept bitterly... As Xu Yi cried, the ghostly and malevolent energy within a hundred miles rapidly began to be drawn and contracted towards Xu Yi...
Xu Yi cried for a long time, until her whole body was enveloped in ghostly and malevolent energy. She removed her hand, her eyes filled with intense resentment. She looked at Wu Zi, her voice cold and clear, each word firm and resolute: "Tell me, Wu Zi, where is she?"
"I...I can't tell you."
"If you don't tell me, I'll find her myself..." Xu Yi's voice was very calm: "As long as my ghostly energy covers the entire capital, I will be able to sense her location..." As Xu Yi spoke, the dense ghostly energy around him shot into the sky like a volcanic eruption, instantly turning the sky above the Prime Minister's residence black...
Wu Zi tried to grab Xu Yi's hand, but the intense ghostly and malevolent aura created a frigid temperature that prevented him from touching it... He looked at Xu Yi anxiously: "Xu Yi, no! We have to think of another way. She will definitely receive the punishment she deserves. We don't need to drag ourselves down with her. Xu Yi, listen to me..."
Xu Yi didn't answer, but looked at Wu Zi and said, word by word, "I want her dead."
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