Qionghua Falls (Part 2)

During the nineteen years he had been frozen, Xuanxiao had thought about many things, such as why Su Yu had betrayed him in the first place. It was not that Xuanxiao had no feelings for Su Yu. He had once asked Yun Tianhe to pick phoenix flowers, which already showed that he cared for her.

It was simply that Xuanxiao, unlike Yun Tianqing and Yun Tianhe, did not place feelings above all else. In his heart, ascending to immortality came first. During those nineteen frozen years, Xuanxiao had considered that if even Su Yu could betray him, why not control the Yihe Sword and Wangshu Sword by himself? That way, no one could betray him.

When it came to familiarity with the Wangshu Sword, no one in the entire Qionghua Sect now knew it better than Xuanxiao. After all, he and Su Yu had cultivated together back then. That was why Xuanxiao could use the two swords to bind the Huanming Realm without needing Han Lingsha to act.

As for Su Yao, she was purely a smokescreen. What Xuanxiao wanted was for the entire Qionghua Sect to ascend, not just himself, so naturally he needed Su Yao, the sect leader of Qionghua, to cooperate.

"Big Brother, have you been deceiving me all along? The Three Cold Artifacts, and Lingsha's matter too, right?" Though he already knew the truth, Yun Tianhe still looked at Xuanxiao with a trace of hope in his eyes.

"It did not exactly count as deceiving you. At first, I merely wanted to see Su Yu's child. I did not expect you to want to help me break free, much less go to such trouble to find the Three Cold Artifacts for me." Xuanxiao's voice was filled with nostalgia.

That hardly counted as trouble. Shen Fei muttered