Leng Yaozhu looked down at her younger sister on the ground, the tip of her sword pressing against the skin at Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai's neck, yet she never advanced an inch further.
When she spoke, her voice carried a trace of an uncontrollable tremor, as if trying hard to suppress some surging emotions: "Why? Why on earth did you join the Holy Spirit Cult? The Dark Phoenix Spirit is not a reason, you were not like this before!"
Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai raised her head, blood overflowing from the corners of her mouth, and that pale smile on her face seemed squeezed out from a deeply buried wound: "Why? All of this is because of you!"
Her voice suddenly rose a few pitches, carrying the sharpness and hoarseness of accumulated years finally finding an outlet: "That woman snatched Yun Ming away, and you, as my elder sister, not only did not help me, but at that time secretly went to confess to Yun Ming!"
"I do not have an elder sister like you! From that day on, I swore that you are my enemy, an undying enemy!"
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao was stunned on the spot, never expecting that the reason Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai hated her elder sister turned out to be this.
He opened his mouth, but found that he simply did not know how to evaluate it, truly because this was far too absurd.
Perhaps one could only say that the Dark Phoenix Spirit affected Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai's Heart-Nature, causing her personality to become paranoid and extreme.
Otherwise, how could a normal person hate her own biological sister to death over such a misunderstanding, and even throw herself into the Holy Spirit Cult, becoming a member of the Evil Soul Masters?
Leng Yaozhu was also stunned, and she obviously did not expect that the reason turned out to be precisely this.
In an instant, past memories surged into her heart, and she understood what Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai had misunderstood.
The hand holding her sword violently tightened, and then her wrist turned, causing the longsword condensed from Heavenly Phoenix True Fire to trace an arc in the air, and its thick blade heavily slapped against the side of Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai's face like a palm.
With a crisp and loud "crack".
Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai was struck so hard that her head turned to the side, and her entire person froze there, then she widened her eyes to look at Leng Yaozhu, as if she had been completely dazed by this blow.
However, the paranoia and ferocity in her eyes seemed to be shaken away a bit by this "slap", revealing the long-unseen clarity underneath.
Leng Yaozhu's chest rose and fell violently, her voice carrying a nearly hysterical anger: "You idiot! Could you not have come to ask me clearly? Joining the Holy Spirit Cult without figuring out what happened, what do you expect me to say about you?!"
Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai blankly looked at her elder sister, those originally chilling pupils trembling slightly at this moment as if pierced through by something.
A sense of realization rose in her heart, and she opened her mouth, her voice so low that it seemed squeezed out from the depths of her throat: "What do you mean?"
Leng Yaozhu did not answer directly, forcefully suppressing the urge to slap her once more, and her voice was much lower than just now as she asked: "Could it be that in your life, besides Yun Ming, there is nothing else? For a man, you discarded even sisterly affection?"
Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai did not reply, her gaze falling on Leng Yaozhu's face, as if re-examining this person she once thought she had completely seen through.
Leng Yaozhu was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke: "I will let you know right now what actually happened back then."
As her voice fell, the space around her suddenly began to ripple with subtle tremors flowing like water waves.
Following that, a somewhat illusory scene slowly unfolded with her at the center.
Then two figures appeared, precisely Yun Ming and Leng Yaozhu.
Huo Yuhao stood not far away, his gaze falling upon that scene, then he slightly narrowed his eyes.
His mental force was extremely formidable, and with a single glance he could judge that this was not some kind of illusion, but rather the manifestation of materialized thought.
Being able to transform thought into visualized scenes meant that the caster's mental force had already reached the Peak of the Spirit Domain Realm, only a step away from a Breakthrough to the God Origin Realm.
He was secretly astonished in his heart, not expecting that Aunt Leng quietly cultivated her mental force to such an extent.
Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai obviously also recognized what this was, staring fixedly at the scene unfolding within, as if some images sealed away for too long were being unsealed anew.
Back then, precisely because she saw the scene of Leng Yaozhu confessing to Yun Ming, she left home in a fit of rage and ultimately joined the Holy Spirit Cult.
Yet the "story" she saw today was even more complete; in that scene, after Leng Yaozhu finished those words of confession, she further stated that for the sake of the Clan and her younger sister, she ultimately chose to give up!
Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai looked at the gradually dissipating materialized thought light and shadow, her gaze still retaining the aftershocks left by those images just moments ago.
She looked at Leng Yaozhu, an unspeakable shock surging within her heart.
She had never thought that the matters of back then could have such a turn of events.
She had always thought that what she saw was the entirety, thinking that her elder sister betrayed her and betrayed their sisterly affection, yet she did not know that after that, another sentence was deeply hidden within the cracks of time.
In an instant, she realized that the hatred of all these years had chosen the wrong direction from the very beginning.
That anger clung to for many years was collapsing at a destructive speed at this moment, replaced by guilt and remorse, surging into her heart like a breached flood, completely submerging her.
Her eye sockets became moist, tears uncontrollably sliding down to drip onto the ground along that cold and glamorous face, and she said with a trembling voice: "I was wrong... I was truly wrong!"
Leng Yaozhu looked at her appearance at this moment, slowly retracting the longsword in her hand.
The chill in her eyes was gradually dissipating bit by bit, but her tightly furrowed brows did not relax.
After a moment, Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai raised her head once more, that originally arrogant and aloof face covered in pear blossoms with rain, unexpectedly appearing somewhat delicate and weak.
Her voice also softened: "I am sorry... Elder Sister."
This "I am sorry", she had to say.
That was a debt she owed for many years, which even if she exhausted her strength at this moment could not be repaid.
After speaking, Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai lowered her gaze slightly, and she asked another sentence: "Elder Sister... How are you going to deal with me?"
Obviously, knowing the truth, Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai could no longer return to the Holy Spirit Cult.
Leng Yaozhu was silent, standing there with her gaze falling on Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai's face, locking eyes with those eyes carrying guilt and anticipation.
She opened her mouth, but found that she could not speak a word for a moment.
Evil Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Cult deserve to be executed by all, which is the consensus of Spirit Masters across the entire continent.
Yet the person before her eyes was her younger sister, one of the very few blood relatives she had left in this world.
If Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai had done some minor wrong, Leng Yaozhu might have quietly covered it up out of unbearable compassion in her heart.
But now that she had joined the Holy Spirit Cult for many years, who knew how many evil deeds she had committed, and who knew how many innocent lives her hands had been stained with.
Her fists slowly clenched, and in the end she could only say: "Having done wrong things, one must pay the price for it."
"What I can guarantee is that in the final stage of your life, you will not suffer any torture."
When she reached this point, her tone finally softened: "This is what I, as an elder sister, can do for you now."
Hearing this, Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai did not show any resentful or sorrowful expression, instead smiling.
That smile was very faint, yet it carried a sense of relief like a heavy burden lifted: "I knew it, you would definitely say that."
She then extended her right hand, her palm cradling a metal sphere the size of an infant's fist, its surface glowing with a dull metallic luster.
"Inside here is the evidence of Qiangu Dongfeng contacting the Holy Spirit Cult, which should be the thing you need."
Leng Yaozhu took that metal ball, her fingertips touching the slightly cool surface, and a trace of complex emotion swept through her heart.
And right at this moment, a dark red short sword silently appeared within Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai's left hand.
That short sword emitted a chilling luster throughout its entire body, carrying a trace of dark marks at the edge that seemed to have congealed for a long time.
But that sword did not thrust toward Leng Yaozhu; her wrist flipped, the sword tip inverted, and it pierced straight into her own chest!
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A/N:
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