[It turned out Xi Shui's husband had been a powerful Evil Soul Master.]
[After saving Xi Shui, he used his formidable evil power to guide her martial soul into mutation, causing her to fall and become a so-called Evil Soul Master.]
[From that point on, Xi Shui had completely lost any way back. For the rest of her life, she could only continue living as an Evil Soul Master.]
[And because of this, Xi Shui came to hate Mu En, me, and the Evil Soul Master who became her husband.]
[Because Xi Shui believed that the three of us had ruined her entire life.]
"Was it really that tragic?!" Within Shrek Academy's Inner Court, young girls like Ling Luochen were the most easily moved.
They were also the most likely to fiercely imagine all the grudges, love, and hatred involved.
In fact, it was not just those young girls.
The vast majority of people across the continent felt sorry for Ye Xishui's tragic fate, completely changing their previous attitudes.
After all, from the perspective of Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao's monologue, Ye Xishui had purely been portrayed as an incredibly unlucky victim.
At first, when listening to Dragon God Douluo Mu En's monologue, they had not felt that way.
While sympathizing with Mu En, they had also scorned Ye Xishui.
"I never expected Senior Xi Shui to have suffered such a tragic fate." Cai Mei'er could not help sighing.
Such a fate full of misfortune greatly changed the younger generation's view of Ye Xishui.
After all, back then, they had no way of knowing the truth and could only see the surface.
But sympathy was sympathy. When it came to matters of right and wrong, their stance would certainly not change.
After all, because of Ye Xishui, Shrek Academy had been attacked, and the previous Sea God Pavilion Master had suffered grievous wounds that damaged his foundation. That was an indisputable fact!!
The reason everyone's attitude toward Ye Xishui had changed so much was ultimately because Mu En and Long Xiaoyao had emphasized different aspects of Ye Xishui in their monologues.
Having emerged from the wounds of love, Mu En had glossed over matters concerning Ye Xishui, leading them to form all sorts of misunderstandings.
Long Xiaoyao, who had been trapped by this ordeal of love all his life and had never escaped it, naturally wanted to recount every detail concerning Ye Xishui in his monologue.
Just two monologues had already brought about such a change.
It was truly hard to imagine what the continent's living beings would think once Ye Xishui's own monologue appeared.
Perhaps, after their surprise and shock, many would feel even more anger at having been fooled like idiots.
Reversal after reversal after reversal—it was simply too entertaining.
"Mother met Father like this?!" At the Holy Spirit Cult Headquarters, Zhong Liwu stared at the contents on the Heavenly Curtain in disbelief.
Clearly, Zhong Liwu had been completely led astray by the monologues revealed on the Heavenly Curtain.
He knew who his father and mother were.
But Zhong Liwu was still unclear about some of the details.
After all, although Old Ghost Zhongli had rescued Ye Xishui after attacking Shrek Academy, he had also been severely wounded and was not far from death.
Only after Old Ghost Zhongli had forcibly held on for several decades and realized he could no longer endure did he force Ye Xishui to bear Zhong Liwu for him.
"That's it, that's it. The more they sympathize with Ye Xishui, the better. When the truth comes out, the effect will be even greater."
Disguised, Shao Zhuang strolled through Shrek City, observing the reactions of the people around him to the Heavenly Curtain.
He was very satisfied with this.
This was precisely the effect Shao Zhuang wanted. Only then would his arrangement of the order of Mu En and the other two's monologues not have been wasted.
[After learning the truth, neither Mu En nor I knew what to do.]
[Xi Shui was no longer the Xi Shui of the past. Even we were no longer who we had once been. We all had our own families and our own changes.]
[Xi Shui did not kill us. Instead, she made us swear poisonous oaths. From that moment on, Mu En and I could no longer call each other brothers. And ten years later, Mu En and I would have to engage in a battle to the death. In that battle, only one of us could survive. Otherwise, our families and friends would face death.]
[My feelings for Xi Shui back then, my guilt toward Xi Shui, and the mutual resentment between brothers... Driven by some strange impulse, Mu En and I agreed to this so-called life-and-death duel.]
[At the time, I wondered whether things would have ended differently if either Mu En or I had continued searching for the vanished Xi Shui.]
[Ten years later, the life-and-death battle arrived as scheduled. With Xi Shui as witness, Mu En and I fought a great battle, ultimately injuring each other badly. And when I saw Xi Shui again, her appearance had changed. She was no longer as aged as before and had regained her youth.]
[Since no victor had been decided, Xi Shui relentlessly set another ten-year agreement. Yet the result was still mutual ruin.]
[After repeating this for several decades, Mu En and I had both reached the age of one hundred. We were no longer young, but our cultivation had already reached the level of Super Douluo.]
[But at that very time, Xi Shui vanished once more. Before leaving, she deliberately sent letters to Mu En and me, telling us that she knew we had been putting on fake fights all along.]
[So, in the coming life-and-death battle during our hundredth year, only one person between Mu En and me could survive. Otherwise, the continent would be plunged into devastation!!]
[We knew Xi Shui had the ability to do all this. After all, her cultivation had already reached Rank 98, and Mu En and I were still no match for her. A Rank 98 Evil Soul Master could easily throw the continent into turmoil.]
[Several decades had passed, yet Mu En and I had not emerged from those feelings of the past. Instead, as time passed, we sank deeper and deeper.]
[Given Mu En's and my identities and status, we could have mobilized a great number of powerful experts and successfully surrounded and killed Xi Shui. But we never did so, nor did we ever have such thoughts. We had always maintained the current situation through life-and-death battles in which no victor was ever decided.]
[Xi Shui naturally understood Mu En's and my intentions and knew the reasons behind them.]
[So, at the end of the letter, she specifically said that after all these years, she had seen our feelings for her and was willing to let go of the hatred she had carried for so long.
But she could only be with the stronger of the two of us. This would count as her final punishment for us.]
[If the life-and-death battle produced a victor, then the winner among us could marry Xi Shui as his wife. But if we continued as before and ended in mutual ruin, Xi Shui would plunge the continent into devastation.]
[Thus, Mu En and I both fell into deep conflict, unable to make that so-called choice.]
Before you continue