Ye Xishui Was the Culprit All Along

...Sorry, I got a little stuck on the writing. Please revisit this chapter during the day after it has been reorganized. I'll add an extra chapter for everyone in a few days...

She possessed the hidden Second Martial Soul, the Light Phoenix, and before joining the Holy Spirit Cult, her surname had also been Yan.

The coincidence was simply too much of a coincidence, and it gave Yan Shaozhe a deeply ominous feeling.

It can't be. It can't be...

Yan Shaozhe tried his best to cast those thoughts from his mind. Pretending to be free of distractions, he continued showing Shao Zhuang around the academy.

"Come, Junior Disciple Brother. I'll take you somewhere else to have a look." With that, Yan Shaozhe led Shao Zhuang toward another area with an utterly normal expression.

However, Shao Zhuang had been paying close attention to Yan Shaozhe's emotional shifts from the very beginning. With the system's assistance, there was naturally no way Yan Shaozhe could hide them from him.

Yan Shaozhe might have looked perfectly normal now, but in truth, his heart was constantly focused on the movements of the Heavenly Curtain.

Dean Yan, the thing you least wanted to consider is precisely the truth. Shao Zhuang eagerly anticipated Yan Shaozhe's reaction once his true identity was exposed.

Ye Xishui's monologue brought one shock after another to the world.

That was precisely why Shao Zhuang had arranged the order of these three people this way.

[Later, when I met Xiao Yao again, it was in Shrek City. At the time, I was about to marry Mu En and become his wife.]

[But at that moment, Old Ghost Zhongli found me again and demanded that I do everything possible to drive a wedge between Xiao Yao and Mu En.]

[Because Xiao Yao and Mu En were both peerless geniuses, they were destined to become peerless powerhouses in the future. If they were allowed to continue growing, then with their hatred of evil, they would become the Holy Spirit Cult's greatest threat.]

[Therefore, they had to be separated no matter what. They had to become enemies and restrain each other, so that the Holy Spirit Cult could develop more smoothly.]

[Thus, I proposed that plan. I would use myself as bait to tempt Xiao Yao, make him commit a mistake, and make him believe that he had destroyed everything.]

[Without question, the plan succeeded. It successfully plunged the three of us into endless pain, tormenting one another and tearing apart our relationship.]

[But in reality, only Mu En and Xiao Yao truly suffered. From beginning to end, I knew exactly what I was doing. I personally orchestrated everything. After all, I was the Holy Spirit Cult's Saintess, and I was naturally opposed to them!]

"Pfft!" In his fury, Long Xiaoyao, a Limit Douluo, actually spat out a mouthful of blood.

It was clear just how devastating the truth was to him after he learned it.

He had thought he already knew the so-called truth, yet he had never expected the story behind it to be far more complicated than he had imagined.

The damage inflicted by that truth even far exceeded his expectations, leaving a massive wound in his heart.

The anger that had only just eased instantly surged back up, burning ever more fiercely.

The thing he had regretted most in his entire life had actually been nothing less than a complete trap!

Ye Xishui had always claimed to love him, yet she had calmly used fabricated lies to deceive and exploit him.

The two words "Xi Shui," which he had always used, now became her full name, carrying his endless fury with them.

No matter what, Long Xiaoyao would never accept such a reality.

His original intention of stopping to seek out Ye Xishui changed completely. No matter what, he had to find Ye Xishui himself!

Even though the Heavenly Curtain had already begun revealing Ye Xishui's monologue, Long Xiaoyao could not wait another second.

Because whether she was alive or dead, he had to see her!

Long Xiaoyao's current feelings were entirely understandable.

Why had Long Xiaoyao, unlike Mu En, never managed to move on and remained trapped in it all this time?

Was it not because, in his mind, he himself was the chief culprit behind the suffering of all three of them?

If not for his mistake, that situation would never have happened, and they would not all have become tragedies.

Thus, mixed in with Long Xiaoyao's love for Ye Xishui were guilt and a desire for redemption.

That was the key reason he could never escape this trial of love.

Previously, Ye Xishui had trapped Long Xiaoyao with lies, imprisoning him for his entire life and making him willingly serve her and work for the Holy Spirit Cult.

But when the truth came to light, all of that former guilt and desire for redemption would only become the finest fuel for his anger, driving him completely mad.

In the original story, Long Xiaoyao had only learned the truth from Ye Xishui after he was nearly killed by the Sun Moon Empire's trap.

At that time, he must have been incomparably furious, but his condition left him willing yet powerless, reduced to utter helplessness.

He lacked the strength to question anything and could only let Ye Xishui slowly reveal the truth behind everything.

But things were different now. Long Xiaoyao was still a Limit Douluo at the height of his power, still one of the strongest human beings on this continent.

So he was fully capable of questioning Ye Xishui and venting the emotions that had accumulated over more than two hundred years of being kept in the dark.

[After that incident, I left. I vanished from the world's sight and returned to the Holy Spirit Cult I knew so well. I knew I had deeply hurt Mu En and Xiao Yao, but I did not regret it. Because I knew that if the plan failed, Old Ghost Zhongli would absolutely spare no cost to kill them both.]

[Xiao Yao was the man I loved, while Mu En was my dear elder brother. How could I not know how well they treated me? To keep them from being hunted by the Holy Spirit Cult and allow them to live, this was the only thing I could do.]

"What a cursed fate!" Within the Star Luo Imperial Palace, Xuan Zi could not help sighing.

He had never expected the truth behind what had happened all those years ago to be so bizarre.

[Although I truly hurt Xiao Yao terribly, I, Ye Xishui, absolutely did right by him. A few months after returning to the Holy Spirit Cult, I was shocked to discover that I was pregnant. That's right, I was carrying Xiao Yao's child.]

[After thinking it over for a long time, I decided to give birth to this child. But because of my identity, I entrusted the child to a family to raise. I hoped that child could live healthily and happily, and preferably never even become a Soul Master. It would be best for the child to grow up as an ordinary person.]

[And that child used the surname I had before joining the Holy Spirit Cult: Yan.]

The Heavenly Curtain's revelation made Yan Shaozhe's eyelid twitch as he showed Shao Zhuang around Shrek Academy's Inner Court.