[It turned out Xi Shui's husband was a powerful Evil Soul Master.]
[After saving Xi Shui, he used his formidable evil power to induce a mutation in her martial soul, causing her to fall and become a so-called Evil Soul Master.]
[From then on, Xi Shui had completely lost any chance of turning back. For the rest of her life, she could only continue living as an Evil Soul Master.]
[It was precisely because of this that 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 by such things.
They were also more likely to fiercely imagine all the grudges and tangled romances behind it.
In fact, it was not just those young girls;
The vast majority of people across the continent felt sorry for Ye Xishui's tragic experiences and completely changed their previous attitudes.
After all, from the perspective of Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao's monologue, Ye Xishui was simply the utterly unfortunate victim.
At first, when listening to Dragon God Douluo Mu En's monologue, they had not felt this way.
While sympathizing with Mu En, they had also condemned Ye Xishui.
"I never expected Senior Xi Shui to have suffered such a tragic fate." Cai Mei'er could not help but sigh.
Such a fate filled with misfortune greatly changed how these juniors viewed Ye Xishui.
After all, back then, they had no way of knowing the truth and could only see the superficial facts.
But sympathy was sympathy. When it came to matters of right and wrong, their stance would certainly not change.
After all, due to Ye Xishui, Shrek Academy had been attacked, and the previous Sea God Pavilion Master had suffered severe injuries that damaged his foundation. That was an indisputable fact!!
The reason everyone's attitude toward Ye Xishui had changed so drastically was ultimately because Mu En and Long Xiaoyao's monologues emphasized different aspects of Ye Xishui's story.
Mu En, who had emerged from the pain of love, had glossed over matters concerning Ye Xishui, causing them to develop all sorts of misunderstandings.
Long Xiaoyao, who had remained trapped by love his entire life and had never escaped it, naturally wished to tell them everything related to Ye Xishui in his monologue.
Just two monologues had already brought about such a change.
It was truly hard to imagine what the living beings of the continent 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.
Twist after twist after twist—this was simply far too interesting.
"Mother met Father like this?!" At the Holy Spirit Cult Headquarters, Zhong Liwu looked at the contents on the Heavenly Curtain in disbelief.
Clearly, Zhong Liwu had been completely led astray by the monologue exposed on the Heavenly Curtain.
He knew who his father and mother were.
But Zhong Liwu still did not know many of the details.
After Old Ghost Zhongli attacked Shrek Academy and rescued Ye Xishui, he had also suffered devastating injuries and was not far from death.
Only after Old Ghost Zhongli had held on for several decades, when he knew he could no longer endure, did he force Ye Xishui to bear Zhong Liwu for him.
"That's it, exactly. The more they sympathize with Ye Xishui, the better. Only when the truth comes to light will it have an even greater effect."
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, Mu En and I did not know 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 each had our own families and our own changes.]
[Xi Shui did not kill us. Instead, she made us swear a poisonous oath. From that moment on, Mu En and I could no longer call each other brothers. Furthermore, ten years later, Mu En and I would have to fight a battle to the death. In that battle, only one of us could survive; otherwise, our families and friends would be threatened with death.]
[Our feelings for Xi Shui back then, our guilt toward her, and the mutual resentment between brothers all led Mu En and me, as if possessed, to agree to the so-called duel to the death.]
[At that time, I wondered: if Mu En or I had continued insisting on searching for the vanished Xi Shui back then, would the outcome have been different?]
[Ten years later, the battle to the death arrived as scheduled. Under Xi Shui's witness, Mu En and I fought fiercely, ultimately leaving both sides grievously wounded. When I saw Xi Shui again then, her appearance had changed as well. She was no longer as aged as before and had regained her youth.]
[Since no victor had been determined, Xi Shui relentlessly set another ten-year appointment. Yet the result was still mutual defeat.]
[After this continued for several decades, Mu En and I had both entered our hundredth year. We were no longer young, but our cultivation had already reached the level of Super Douluo.]
[Yet at that very time, Xi Shui vanished once again. Before leaving, she specifically sent Mu En and me a letter, telling us that she knew we had been faking our battles all along.]
[Thus, in the upcoming battle to the death during our hundredth year, only one of 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. An Evil Soul Master with Soul Power as high as Rank 98 could cause chaos across the continent with absurd ease.]
[Several decades had passed, yet Mu En and I had not emerged from the feelings we had harbored back then. Instead, we had sunk ever deeper as time went by.]
[Given Mu En's and my identities and status, we could have mobilized a large number of powerful experts and successfully surrounded and killed Xi Shui. But we had never done so, nor had we ever considered it. We had continued using those unresolved battles to the death to maintain the current situation.]
[Xi Shui naturally understood Mu En's and my intentions, and she knew the reasons behind them.]
[Thus, at the end of her letter, she specifically said that after so many years, she had seen our feelings for her and was willing to let go of the hatred she had carried for years.
But she could only be with the stronger of the two of us. This was also her final punishment for us.]
[If the battle to the death produced a victor, then the one who won could take Xi Shui as his wife. But if we continued as before and once again left both sides grievously wounded, Xi Shui would plunge the continent into devastation.]
[Thus, Mu En and I both fell into deep turmoil, unable to make this so-called choice.]
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