For a moment, Lin Xuan felt as if he had fallen into five li of cloud and fog; no matter what, he could not make sense of the truth behind this matter.
Yue'er's expression was much the same. The two of them quietly listened for the other party to continue.
"What happened afterward?"
"Afterward..."
A trace of fear flashed across the Robe-Clad Elder's face, as though he could not bear to go on. "Afterward, everyone saw the bride. She was indeed a beauty fit to topple kingdoms, with heaven-granted grace. Though she could not compare with that Fairy in the Clouds, she was still a first-rate peerless beauty."
"Everyone praised the fortress lord for his good fortune, and Fairy in the Clouds also smiled and called her such a beauty. But before the words had even faded, she killed the bride with a single sword strike."
"What?"
Lin Xuan turned pale with shock. Ever since he had stepped onto the path of cultivation, he had experienced countless strange events, yet he had never heard of a scene so bizarre and uncanny. He could not help murmuring, "Could the two of them have had a grudge?"
"How could there have been a grudge? The teleportation was random to begin with; how could she just so happen to arrive in an enemy's home? Besides, that bride came from a clean and proper background. The fortress lord and Fairy in the Clouds were also meeting for the first time. If there had been enmity, would that not be far too absurd?"
The Robe-Clad Elder sighed. The matter was inherently impossible to untangle; he could only continue telling it.
"As for that new bride, she was also a cultivator at the Spirit Division level. But the change happened too suddenly, and Fairy in the