Later, Xiao Yuhan learned from an elder that this person was a senior of the Heavenly Sword Sect named Yang Zui, who came to guard the Demon-Defending Great Wall with his fellow disciples when he had achieved great success in his cultivation.
That year, 137 members of the Heavenly Sword Sect shed their blood in the great war between the two races, and Yang Zui was an extremely outstanding figure among his peers.
That year, the demon race launched a massive invasion. In order to prevent the Great Wall from being breached, Yang Zui returned to the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall at a critical moment and ordered the formation to be sealed off so that no demon race would have a chance to break through. However, this also prevented people outside from returning to the Great Wall.
Yang Zui could only watch helplessly as his junior sister was overwhelmed by the beast tide. That year, his junior sister was chased by monsters alone outside the Great Wall and her whereabouts have been unknown ever since.
The elders of the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall said that those who were stranded outside the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall had virtually no chance of survival.
After the monster tide receded, Yang Zui opened the formation and searched for many years outside the Great Wall.
And ever since then, he has been wandering around Xiliang, but he has been unable to find his junior sister.
Many years later, he realized that his junior sister was probably no longer alive.
He lived a life worthy of his sect and the human race, but he wronged his junior sister. Thus, the regret in his heart turned into an obsession, making him wait on the city wall, clinging to that last hope that one day he would see his junior sister return.
Everyone knows that person can never come back.
So many years have passed, and even though the old man's lifespan has long since come to an end, he still wants to try to live on and protect that sliver of hope in his heart that seems impossible to outsiders.
Xiao Yuhan witnessed this moment with his own eyes, but at this moment, he did not understand any of this. He only felt that the white-haired woman's aura was familiar to him, and he guessed that this person was very likely a demon disciple, just like Li Wenruo, the Third Senior Sister Shen Huairu who had returned from Xiliang.
However, the woman seemed unwilling to have any interaction with Xiao Yuhan and left immediately after the old man died.
Xiao Yuhan was in hot pursuit from behind.
Three days later, the two arrived one after the other at a lake outside Yingyue City. The white-haired woman finally stopped, turned to look at Xiao Yuhan, and asked, "Why are you following me?"
Xiao Yuhan thought for a moment and said, "I want to find out your identity. The old hero of the human race has passed away, but you are there. It is very suspicious no matter how you look at it."
The white-haired woman was more forthcoming than expected, making no attempt to hide her feelings. "My name is Jiang Yining, and I come from Tianmojian. That old man seems to have some connection with me. Before, his aura was too powerful, and I dared not approach him. So, when he was dying, I went to see him and told him what I should have told him."
Xiao Yuhan recalled what Li Wenruo had said before: every demon disciple who jumped into the Heavenly Demon Abyss would make a wish, hoping to fulfill it after waking up. However, some demon disciples remembered it after waking up, while others did not.
"You are a demon disciple, and you have returned here to fulfill the wish you made when you went to the Heavenly Demon Abyss, right?"
The woman was taken aback, seemingly surprised. She didn't know why Xiao Yuhan knew about their Heavenly Demon Abyss, but to avoid trouble, she said, "That's right, but I didn't come back to complete this matter. It's just that I felt uneasy after seeing that old man that day. I originally planned to let it go, but I couldn't help it in the end. His lifespan had long since ended. I just... wanted him to go in peace."
"You're his junior sister, right?"
Jiang Yining shook her head. "Yes and no. This body should be, right? But I am just me."
Xiao Yuhan gripped Jun Mo's hand tightly, her brows furrowing. "What exactly are you demon disciples trying to do? Why are so many demon disciples emerging from the Heavenly Demon Abyss lately?"
Jiang Yining seemed to sense Xiao Yuhan's hostility and waved her hand, saying, "I am different from them. You'd better put your sword away. I am not an enemy of your human race."
Xiao Yuhan stopped and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Suddenly, Jiang Yining vanished from her spot with a mysterious means and appeared directly in front of Xiao Yuhan. She raised her hand and pointed a finger at Xiao Yuhan's brow. "You are no match for me, but I will not harm you. Although I am a demon disciple, please believe me, I will not become your enemy."
Xiao Yuhan sensed that this woman's aura was very powerful, but her spiritual energy fluctuations contained a faint rhythm of the Great Dao, holy and majestic. Calling her a demon disciple seemed different from Su Li and the nine-tailed fox demon he had met before. This woman in front of him was more like a Taoist cultivator who had secluded himself from the world.
Xiao Yuhan realized that he was no match for her, so he simply sheathed his sword and temporarily abandoned the idea of fighting.
"So who exactly are you?"
Jiang Yining smiled and said, "In the Heavenly Demon Abyss, I am the Creation Saint Lord, but among humans, I am just Jiang Yining, a cultivator who reveres the Heavenly Dao."
"The Creation Saint Lord? What exactly is the Heavenly Demon Abyss?" Xiao Yuhan pressed, sensing that this woman could still communicate, and trying to extract more useful information.
“That place… is a cage from which no one can escape in their entire life. As for the Creation Saint Lord, it’s just a title. Among the high-ranking demon disciples of the Heavenly Demon Abyss, there are ten who possess absolute power. The strongest of them is the master of all the demon disciples. However… she couldn’t control me, so I returned to the Central Plains. So, now you can tell me who you really are, right?”
Xiao Yuhan thought for a moment and said, "Heavenly Sword Sect, Xiao Yuhan."
"I'm asking, who exactly are you? Xiao Yuhan is just your body, so who is your soul?"
Xiao Yuhan was taken aback. Did this woman know she was a time traveler? Could she be Su Li's accomplice? But after thinking about it carefully, she asked him who he really was. Did she just realize that he wasn't Xiao Yuhan?
He immediately said, "I don't understand what you mean."
Jiang Yining formed a hand seal and drew a Tai Chi diagram in the air. Then she said, "I can deduce your origins and know that you are not Xiao Yuhan. However, doing so would consume some of my cultivation. So if you are willing to tell me the truth, perhaps we can continue to communicate."
Xiao Yuhan fell silent. He didn't know why this woman had such methods, but she didn't seem like an enemy. If she were an enemy, she probably wouldn't be wasting so much time talking to him.
After hesitating for a moment, he still said cautiously, "I am indeed not Xiao Yuhan. You can understand it as possession."
Jiang Yining pondered for a moment, then shook her head and said, "It's not quite the same as possession... wait... no..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Yining used her internal energy to deduce the truth. After a moment, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, and then she laughed and said, "So you and she are the same kind of people... Hahaha... It seems we really can become friends!"
Xiao Yuhan stood there, stunned. "What do you mean by that?"
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