Six thousand funeral flowers
Yu Yangxian no longer had time to think about who to control, because the number of people coming was indeed increasing.
Avoiding Su Yuanshan's sword strike after he regained consciousness, and noticing Mi Yun, Liu Lihua, and the others descending from the sky, Yu Yangxian stood in the center of the pond, looking up at the moon. Suddenly feeling hopeless, she tried to escape by activating the water ripples and moon shadows, but Mi Yun pulled on the silk threads at that moment, blocking her way.
Yu Yangxian was about to head in another direction when she discovered that Mi Yun, Liu Lihua, Jin Yi, and Su Yuanshan were standing at the four corners of the courtyard. She couldn't escape, especially when she saw the broken jade on Liu Lihua's body.
Several people attacked together, and Yu Yangxian had nowhere to retreat. She was defeated and fell into the courtyard.
When she was defeated, the first person to rush up to kill her was not the four people with martial arts skills, but Gu Jiuyu.
"Princess, be careful!"
Jin Yi stepped forward and pulled back the impulsive Gu Jiuyu, stopping her, saying, "This demoness is extremely dangerous, you must not rush forward!"
Gu Jiuyu struggled, glaring angrily at Jin Yi: "Let go! If we don't kill her now, she might still survive! We must kill her!"
She turned to look at the expressionless Yu Yangxian and questioned, "Why! Why did so many people die for no reason because of you, yet you are still alive! My uncle and friends all died because of you! Why are you the only one with such good luck? Everyone else is dead, but you are unaffected!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Yangxian merely snorted disdainfully: "So you've been clinging to me like a leech all this time because you think I have some special luck, attributing the deaths of your relatives and friends to my luck. How laughable."
She slightly raised her chin and said calmly, "I do have some special abilities, but unfortunately, they are not some intangible and invisible luck."
She looked in Mi Yun's direction: "Because what I control is the ability to control people's hearts. I don't have any luck at all. Everything is manipulated by me personally."
"Then you deserve to die even more!" Gu Jiuyu said angrily, "The Qin family and the Mu family suffered those tragedies because of you!"
Yu Yangxian said expressionlessly, "As for the Mu family, I had already taken control of the Crown Prince. Even if Mu Rong hadn't gone, there wouldn't have been any consequences. It was her own choice to insist on going out at night and encountering misfortune."
"As for your uncle," Yu Yangxian said calmly, "I only let two people stay at his house. As for why there are martial arts figures seeking revenge, you should ask your good father... Anyway, didn't you already guess that the death of your uncle's family was the result of your father's tacit approval?"
"Shut up!"
Gu Jiuyu's eyes were filled with tears, and he wished he could plunge the sword in his hand into Yu Yangxian's heart right now.
"Since things have come to this, just consider that I did all of this; it doesn't matter to me."
Yu Yangxian said calmly, "I have done what I wanted to do, and that is enough."
"Did you really do what you wanted to do?"
Just then, Liu Lihua, who had been standing by watching, suddenly spoke up:
“Yu, Yuan, He”.
Hearing this familiar name, Yu Yangxian didn't react much, but Liu Lihua's next sentence completely shattered her composure.
"Why don't you answer me? Don't you want to know the truth about your sister's death?"
Yu Yangxian's expression darkened as she looked in her direction: "Yu Yuanjing is just missing. She went with someone. She's not dead!"
"Heh." Liu Lihua chuckled, then covered her face with her folding fan and let out a series of laughs: "You really are naive. You actually believed your sister's story about eloping with someone, and didn't even bother to go home and investigate properly."
She closed her folding fan and slowly stepped forward: "Back then, when Lan Zhiyun defected, she disguised herself as a young man to evade Baiyue's pursuit. Did you think that she was the Baiyue man who eloped with your sister, and that she was the one who taught your sister the Water Pattern Moon Shadow technique that she had been longing for and had been planning for for many years? You're wrong. Lan Zhiyun is a woman, and she didn't master the Water Pattern Moon Shadow technique at all. What she was good at was witchcraft. Back then, your family brought her not to teach Yu Yuanjing lightness skills, but to—cure his illness."
"sick?"
Yu Yangxian was incredulous.
"It seems you're not very familiar with your sister. Before she disappeared, didn't you notice that the family had already stopped her from contacting people around her? Because she contracted a plague that could infect others. And since the emperor was on a southern tour, the Yu family was chosen as one of the hosts at one of the stops. If such a big thing got out, they would miss this rare opportunity. So they couldn't let a word out. They had to find a way to deal with Yu Yuanjing. Their choice was to secretly send Yu Yuanjing to a temple outside the city so she could recuperate there."
Seeing Yu Yangxian's expression, Liu Lihua's lips curled into a smile: "And your sister is indeed very sensible. She knew that there was almost no hope of curing her illness and did not want to make things difficult for her family, so she chose to end her life in the temple."
Yu Yangxian's brows were filled with doubt and disbelief: "How could this be, how could this be..."
Liu Lihua: "After her death, your family was afraid that the epidemic would be exposed, and also afraid that her suicide would be known. So they simply concealed Yu Yuanjing's whereabouts. Even when there were rumors that she had eloped with someone, they just did not respond."
"Impossible! That person couldn't have come to treat her! What about Water Pattern Moon Shadow? And who taught her Water Pattern Moon Shadow?" Yu Yangxian asked, losing control of her emotions.
Liu Lihua gently shook her head: "I don't know what the Water Ripple Moon Shadow looks like, but at least in terms of the Water Ripple Moon Shadow you obtained, this is already the complete form of the Ninefold Water Ripple Moon Shadow. From the perspective of lightness skill, it has reached the pinnacle. If you can't dance like your sister, why not let go of your obsession with the Water Ripple Moon Shadow and think about it, perhaps... it's a problem with people?"
Mi Yun and the others glanced at her with varying expressions.
Liu Lihua, seemingly unfazed by being watched, continued, “I think the reason Yu Yuanjing was able to perform the dance steps that amazed you wasn’t because the original Water Ripples and Moon Shadows were as graceful and fluid as dance steps—after all, we, Baiyue, created this light-body skill for traveling and escaping pursuit, not for beauty. But your sister possessed a talent that only she could master. She gave Water Ripples and Moon Shadows her own soul, so even without learning the complete Water Ripples and Moon Shadows, she could still perform her own Water Ripples and Moon Shadows. And after her death, no one could replicate that dance.”
Yu Yangxian, head bowed, heard Liu Lihua's last words and suddenly burst into laughter. The laughter grew louder and louder, as if she had lost all her obsessions. Suddenly, she attacked Mi Yun.
Mi Yun released the silver needle and aimed it at her forehead. Yu Yangxian's body stiffened, and she fell straight down. Something fell from her body to the ground with a crisp sound.
With a flick of her wrist, Liu Lihua's folding fan stirred up the shard of jade, which finally came to rest steadily on her fan.
"That's right!"
When Su Xiaoying saw the jade, it was as if she had suddenly discovered some truth.
She also has a piece of jade similar to that one, which seems to match that one.
She was about to speak when Su Yuanshan grabbed her hand, implying that she shouldn't.
Xiaoying turned her head and looked at him for a while, then suddenly raised her hand and pulled his hand away, saying to him, "This was never mine to begin with. Over the years, although it seems that having it has helped me get through difficulties time and time again, it has also brought a lot of disasters to me and the people around me. I think that if it returns to where it belongs, these disasters will not happen again."
Su Yuanshan felt somewhat helpless. Xiaoying's kindness kept him clear-headed, but sometimes he wondered if it was another kind of confusion.
Mi Yun and Liu Lihua had noticed the commotion long ago. It turned out that the jade of destiny was both far away and right in front of them. Su Yuanshan had always known that Xiao Ying had this jade.
Mi Yun walked towards Su Xiaoying and Su Yuanshan. Su Yuanshan stood in front of Xiaoying, watching her warily. But then, Xiaoying simply reached out her hand and watched as Mi Yun took the jade.
The next moment, the jade shattered into powder in Mi Yun's hand, falling through the gap between her fingers and eventually being blown away by the wind.
Mi Yun turned around and exchanged a glance with Liu Lihua.
"Once the last piece of jade disappears, the former leader of the Moon Worship Cult will never return. Just like the previous dynasty, it will be destroyed, and there will be no more Emperor Zhao."
Gu Jiuyu raised her head and looked at Mi Yun.
Jin Yi tried to help her up, but Gu Jiuyu shook off his hand and stood up: "Let go, this princess can walk by herself."
She walked outside, knowing that the people her brother had sent were waiting for her to come home.
All the suspicion and hatred came to an end with the deaths of Gu Anmin and Yu Yangxian. She should go back and continue being her princess.
Xiao Ying tugged at Su Yuanshan's sleeve and asked him, "Young Master Su, should we continue searching for the Demonic Sect?"
Su Yuanshan glanced at Gu Jiuyu who was leaving, as well as Liu Lihua who was laughing unrestrainedly and Mi Yun who was expressionless, and had already made up his mind.
"The previous dynasty is gone, and there is no one to lead the worship of the moon. If no more trouble is caused in the future, the title of Demonic Sect will not need to be used for a long time."
Liu Lihua nodded politely to him, but Mi Yun remained expressionless.
After everyone had left, Liu Lihua and Mi Yun went into the city to meet up with all the Moon Worshipers. Because Mi Yun was still in the process of rebuilding her internal energy, their journey wasn't rushed. Mi Yun then found a moment to ask Liu Lihua that question—
"Is Gu Jiuyu really Emperor Zhao's daughter?"
Liu Lihua was surprised that she still remembered this matter. She was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then smiled warmly: "You actually believed it? It's not that easy to switch children, especially since they are of the previous dynasty's bloodline. Unless her mother deliberately cooperated, how could it be done without anyone noticing?"
Mi Yun was speechless: "Compared to the former leader, you are indeed much more cunning."
Liu Lihua smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment."
[End of article]
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