Chapter 464: Chapter 464

464: Chapter 459: Sister Nanyi 464: Chapter 459: Sister Nanyi Fang Geyu’s body couldn’t help but tremble slightly, the cold clouds on the mountain were stirred up by the wind, billowing into her collar and sleeves, a bone-chilling sweat seeping through.

At this time, a warm palm like jade suddenly covered her forehead, gently kneading her head.

That hand seemed to possess some magical power that settled the heart, slowly dispersing her restless thoughts.

Yun Rong stood against the light, the celestial glow behind her softly draping her figure, suffused with a gentle tenderness, “Don’t be afraid, the only way to break the game is to enter it first.

Since I can let you see the golden gate, I’m not afraid of the entity within you.”

Fang Geyu bowed her head and asked, “Why are you telling me all this, isn’t this your biggest secret?”

Yun Rong smiled faintly, saying, “A girl who, from birth, has been able to protect the Ten Directions Sword so well, and has kept the dust of the past sixteen years from seeing its venomous fangs, I think, deserves to know these things.

Of course, more importantly, such an incredible girl is seriously in love with my junior brother.”

Fang Geyu instantly turned both embarrassed and awkward, pushing away the palm on her head, her face flushed as she vehemently retorted, “Who likes your junior brother?

He’s your husband; you can treasure him all you want, I don’t give a damn!”

Each time she exclaimed “Who does?!”, the young mistress would stand on tiptoe with hands on her hips, as if she wished to collide with Yun Rong’s frustrated demeanor with her own youthful chest.

“Is that so?” Yun Rong’s pair of almond-shaped eyes elongated a bit further, tinged with an inexplicable teasing tone.

“I’m quite curious, then.

Since the appearance of your junior brother now differs from the one you saw in your memories, how can you be so certain that he is my husband?”

Yun Rong initially just wanted to tease her about how familiar Fang Geyu was with Baili An’s daily habits; only one close to a person would understand them so well.

But she hadn’t expected Fang Geyu to jump up, her pretty face turning red, her almond eyes suddenly flashing with panic and embarrassment.

Once feeling guilty, the ever-transparent Miss Fang retracted, covering her lips and stepping back a couple of steps, still stubbornly contending, “I…

Yun Rong’s smiling eyes widened for a moment, and then as if realizing something, her luminous fair complexion also flushed with a hint of rosiness.

She mused that this Miss Fang was only sixteen, wasn’t she?

Was she already so bold?

Only then did Fang Geyu realize her reaction was too great; she quickly lowered her hands, cleared her throat, straightened her clothes, and said, “So, Si Chen met his end in his youth, becoming a corpse demon, and thus the future was altered—is that all your doing, Lady Yun Rong?”

Hearing the words “corpse demon,” Yun Rong suddenly pursed her lips, her expression becoming grave and serious, “I would never harm him, for no reason at all.”

Fang Geyu was silent for a moment before saying, “A future that is supposed to be set cannot be changed without cause and effect, just like the Demon Lord who should be on Bai Tuo Mountain being adopted by the Sword Sect’s Young Master, who has yet to inherit the position of Sect Master, is instead beheaded and his body sealed inside the Bronze Gate.

who opened the Bronze Gate, and who is changing all this?”

Yun Rong pressed her hand to her forehead, her gaze turning cold, “I only revived in these last few years, and upon awakening, I found that everything in the outside world had undergone tremendous changes…

I couldn’t find my junior brother, Tianxi Sword Sect had no trace of him, instead, Central Netherworld had a new Crown Prince, Ying Xiu.

Only in recent months have I gradually sensed his presence in this world, but…”

But when he appeared before her, he was ice-cold and breathless.

Yun Rong could hardly describe the emotions she felt when they first reunited.

“I do not know what has happened in these two hundred years,” she said softly, “but it is certain that this change benefits someone the most, and that person must be the one behind it all.”

A cold light flickered in Fang Geyu’s eyes, “You mean that Demon Lord Arao also saw those memories of the future?”

Yun Rong said, “It’s not impossible.”

Fang Geyu spoke with some concern, “Wouldn’t that put you in great danger?”

If the Demon Lord knew those memories, then once Yun Rong came in front of her, it wouldn’t be hard for her to guess Yun Rong’s true identity.

Then this Yun Rong in front of her would be eradicated by this world at the first opportunity!

“Don’t worry, mere suspicion isn’t enough to go that far.” As if understanding Fang Geyu’s thoughts, Yun Rong said calmly.

Fang Geyu looked at her and said, “It seems you have other plans, don’t you?”

Yun Rong smiled noncommittally.

“However, it is truly unimaginable that the little corpse demon would turn out to be the Young Sect Master of Tianxi Sword Sect, the Crown Prince of Central Netherworld.

So, who is this Ying Xiu now?

Also, the one who made the marital engagement with Si Chen and ended up marrying him is clearly you—why do I know that, since childhood, the one who was engaged to him was Su Jing of Taixuan Sect and Yin Baishuang of Cangwu Palace?”

Fang Geyu whispered slightly, “According to rumors, she also had a somewhat ambiguous past with your junior brother.

It’s said that back then, she had already been preparing to marry Young Master Zheng Siyan of the Taiyuan Ghost Sect.

Just because that Zheng Siyan schemed against the man in her heart behind her back, what was intended to be a wedding banquet turned into a massacre; even your Sect Master said that only Zheng Siyan’s life was needed, but that madwoman slaughtered his entire family, reportedly not even sparing a single monkey from the back mountains.”

Yun Rong was greatly surprised, “Is there really such a matter?” She then pondered, “This world indeed has great changes, just as I know, Miss Fang—your birthdate is also incorrect.”

This time it was Fang Geyu’s turn to be shocked, “My…

“Yes, when I and my junior brother first met Lord Xue, it was the third year after we got married; by that time, my junior brother had already become the Sect Master of Tianxi, and Lord Xue was still waiting in her maiden chamber.

She wasn’t married and childless.

It wasn’t until the eve of the apocalypse battle that I heard my junior brother mention that Lord Xue was pregnant with a child, yet she never married.”

Yun Rong’s revelation felt like a hammer blow that left her dizzy; her blood struggling to reach her brain, her vision darkening, she said incoherently, “What…

what does it mean she was ‘with child’?

What do you mean she was ‘never married’?

I have two older brothers, and I have a father…”

Yun Rong shook her head, “In my memory, Lord Xue is a reclusive Immortal with a solitary character; she lives alone in Snow City, aloof and detached from the world, making it hard to believe that she would fall in love with a man and bear his children, let alone during the End of Dharma, when conceiving a child is akin to risking one’s life.”

Fang Geyu felt that since she entered the Bronze Gate, one after another inconceivable event had unfolded, and after talking for a while, she felt almost suffocated by the sheer volume of information.

She unconsciously clutched her chest, lowered her head, and raised the Ten Directions Sword in her hand, as if preparing to do something, but ultimately, gave up.

She avoided the question subconsciously, her voice hoarse, “What are your plans going forward, Lady Yun Rong?

To prevent the Demon Lord’s resurrection?”

Yun Rong shook her head, “Next, I plan to find the traitor hidden within Tianxi Sword Sect.”

Yun Rong said, “Arao believes that I planted the Heavenly Seal Imperial Demon Curse in her mother, manipulating her mother to die by her own sword.

Neither my junior brother nor I would do such a thing, but I know, besides us, there is a third person within Tianxi who also knows this technique.”

Fang Geyu asked, “Don’t you know who this person is?”

Yun Rong shook her head, “During the great battle between good and evil, there were traces on the battlefield of Demon Clan members being controlled by this technique, and both my junior brother and I found it strange, but these are all baseless speculations without evidence.

Can Arao be blamed for the misunderstanding?”

Fang Geyu pondered for a moment, then asked, “Then why did he secure those three days of reprieve for the Demon Lord?

If he wanted Arao to prove her innocence, he could have let her execute that demoness that very night.”

Yun Rong looked at Fang Geyu with a strange expression, and after a while, she sighed, “Is this what they mean by ‘the observer sees clearer than the participant’?

You can guess he has ulterior motives, and yet his disciple, so blindly in love with him, thinks her master would really force her to kill her own mother?”

She slowly closed her eyes, and then said, “Arao did not kill her mother; it was my junior brother…

He had sealed a great evil demon yet to be converted in his Jade Token, and he used a secret technique to replace Shen Qiuzhi with that demon.”

Fang Geyu gasped, “The Heavenly Seal Sword Master would actually protect a demon?” But upon further thought, whether as Sword Master or corpse demon, his nature indeed hadn’t changed.

Yun Rong lowered her eyelids, speaking softly, “What is a demon, and what is an immortal?

It’s merely humanity’s biased understanding.

Since he could save an abandoned demon on the battlefield, naturally he would not stop a mother who forsakes her homeland to be by her daughter’s side.

Although Qiuzhi is not a Great Demon, she is a Demon Doctor among the Demon Clan.

She cannot change the fight between immortals and demons, but who knows among those clamoring for Arao to execute her mother to prove her innocence, how many were saved on the battlefield by Qiuzhi’s merciful hands and preserved their lives.”

“Ungrateful are those who receive kindness, and yet demonkind may still harbor a sliver of mercy, so is there a need for such a clear boundary between right and wrong, good and evil?”

Fang Geyu said, “So Qiuzhi is not dead?

Then why didn’t he directly tell Arao?”

How would that have led to the events that followed?

Yun Rong said, “To hide a drop of water well, it needs to be placed in the ocean; the Demon World is the best place for Qiuzhi to hide, not suitable to stay in the Mortal World, at least before Arao could clear her name.

My junior brother took Qiuzhi away from Taiqi Mountain that night and hid her in the Demon World, which is why he was not guarding the Sword Array in secret that night when someone impersonated Qiuzhi.”