The Balance Shattered

Yunxi sat in the seat of honor, lightly brushing the runes on her sleeve that suppressed her cultivation. Her expression was calm as she said,

"Wei Yunqing, have I given you too much face? You actually had the nerve to come to the Wei Family and swagger about. Wei Lingyue is my father—isn't he yours too? How I do things is not for you to point fingers at."

Wei Yunqing was suppressed so thoroughly that she could not resist. No matter how she circulated her cultivation technique, she could not break through that suppression. In the end, she could only raise her head slightly and look unwillingly at the woman seated above.

She had spent twenty years stabilizing her cultivation, barely securing it at the early Deity Transformation stage. Yet the woman before her still had the same delicate, pretty face. The only changes were her increasingly powerful aura and the disdain in her eyes, as though Wei Yunqing did not even merit notice.

"Wei Yunxi, I am your elder sister. You cannot treat me like this."

She forced those words out through clenched teeth.

Yunxi merely curled her lips slightly.

"What right do you have to be my elder sister? You are nothing more than proof of Wei Lingyue's betrayal of my mother. I did not mention it while he was alive because I was preserving the last shred of his dignity. Why do you think he was never able to break through to the Golden Core stage?"

Wei Yunqing's heart jolted, and she blurted out instinctively,

"It was you! You harmed—"

Before she could finish, Yunxi forcefully cut her off.

"I cherish my feathers. I would not do something as muddleheaded as murdering my own father. Even though he obtained the golden core pill I gave him, his