[Viewing this will consume 20,000 Heavenly Secrets Value. Confirm?]
The warning that appeared on the pale blue virtual information panel made Su Li's heart tighten.
20,000 Heavenly Secrets Value!
What had Yun Qingxuan gone through?
What would Yun Qingxuan go through over the next seven days?
With her strength at only the ninth level of the Golden Core Realm, how could viewing her require such a huge amount of Heavenly Secrets Value?
Even viewing Hua Yunxiao earlier had cost only 30,000!
Su Li hesitated.
At a moment like this, every single point of Heavenly Secrets Value was crucial.
Especially since he was about to gather enough Heavenly Secrets Value to qualify to buy the Latent Dragon Pill!
That pill, worth 99,000, was enough to bring about an earth-shattering transformation in him!
"Lightblue, lock onto this person and open her Life Archive."
Su Li changed his command in his mind.
As soon as he issued it, information from Yun Qingxuan's Life Archive appeared before him.
Before, Yun Qingxuan's fate had been: All things suitable, smooth sailing.
Now, however, her fate had become: Imminent demise, sorrow in all things.
Besides that, Su Li noticed that everything Yun Qingxuan had experienced after returning to her room, finishing her meditation, and rising to her feet had become '???'—no longer accessible.
The first function of the Life Archive System—"Keen Insight"—allowed him to view the Life Archives of living beings from the past and present. The archived information was like a program: beneath the main program were countless subprograms.
He could even narrow his viewing down to the specific thoughts a person had at a specific moment!
But now, Su Li couldn't see Yun Qingxuan's current state, let alone her thoughts.
Even the subordinate categories under Current Information on the system panel were filled with question marks.
He had encountered this situation once before, when some of Hua Yunxiao's information had been marked with question marks.
But that had been an extremely small portion, nothing like this vast sea of question marks!
"If Master Su finds this inconvenient, then I suppose it really is a pity."
Yun Qingxuan's voice broke into Su Li's thoughts.
He came back to himself. Yun Qingxuan's cool, slightly despondent eyes were still fixed on him.
Meeting those haggard, dejected, bewildered eyes, with despair hidden deep within them, Su Li lost focus for a moment. For an instant, he couldn't bring himself to meet her gaze.
Su Li didn't answer.
The room fell silent.
"Master Su, I'm sorry. Qingxuan was presumptuous."
Yun Qingxuan sighed softly and gave a slight bow. After hesitating for a moment, she turned around.
"Lightblue, lock onto Yun Qingxuan and open her Life Archive for the next seven days."
"Confirm consumption of 20,000 Heavenly Secrets Value!"
Su Li watched Yun Qingxuan leave in silence. Then he suddenly recalled that feeling of being watched from earlier, and a thought stirred in his mind.
The next moment, the vast expanse of question marks was covered by text shimmering with a faint blood-red light.
At the same time, the information in Yun Qingxuan's Life Archive for the next seven days appeared in full.
Su Li first absorbed the many pieces of information that had been hidden behind the question marks, utterly shaken. At last, he understood the entire sequence of events.
He also learned that, through a twist of fate, Yun Qingxuan had mastered a certain use of the Soul Perishing Tea Can and, by accident, gained an ability resembling Spiritual Roaming.
With this ability, she had spied on the messages between Hua Yunxiao and the ancestor of the Hua Clan, and seen the attack against him.
And in that moment, he had nearly been killed—only for the Soul Perishing Tea Can to inexplicably intervene and save him!
That meant he already owed her a life debt.
Besides, Yun Qingxuan had come here with the intention of testing and sizing him up.
If he could demonstrate a certain level of ability, she would consider letting him in on part of the truth and trying to save him.
If he proved immensely capable, she would throw in her lot with him at any cost. As long as he could avenge her, she was willing to do anything and pay any price; she didn't care if he used her.
But if he couldn't even sense the danger he was in, truly had not the slightest cultivation, and was unwilling even to talk things over...
Then she would let the secret rot in her heart, tell no one, and let this tragedy unfold.
Su Li absorbed all this information in the space of a few breaths.
But shocking as it was, it paled beside what came next.
Because the brief glimpses of the next seven days were truly horrifying!
Su Li glanced at the time displayed on the system panel: Yunhuang Calendar, September 3, 3030, 3:26:39.
[On September 6, 3030, at 16:13, Yun Qingxuan killed Yun Qinghong, subdued Yaolan after she revived and slaughtered everyone around her, then found Yun Yifan and joined forces with him to fight off the pursuit of the Hua Clan's ancestor.] [On September 7, 3030, at 19:09, Yun Qingxuan subdued Mu Yuxi and offered her to Yun Yifan. Yun Yifan refined Mu Yuxi into a cultivation cauldron and drained her to death. After absorbing the essence of her Mysterious Yin Sacred Body, Yun Yifan underwent an extreme transformation in strength.] [On September 8, 3030, at 12:12, Hua Yunxiao comprehended the Nine Orifice Stone Embryo and transformed it into a Nascent Soul, only to have his soul seized by Yun Yifan, who killed him on the spot. Yun Yifan seized Hua Yunxiao's soul and refined his spirit. At the same time, Zheng Tianyin and Wang Wenyuan used the Celestial Pivot Secret Art to subdue Yun Qingxuan. Yun Qingxuan played along with their scheme, helping Yun Yifan succeed. Just as Yun Yifan was about to triumph, Zheng Tianyin and Wang Wenyuan refined him and locked away his soul, then summoned their master, Gongcheng Tiansheng. Gongcheng Tiansheng refined Yun Yifan. Yun Qingxuan ambushed him with the Soul Locking Tower, and the tower struck his soul with a grievous wound. Yun Qingxuan's ambush failed. Gongcheng Tiansheng refined her soul and locked it away, turning her into a cultivation cauldron. Together with her mother, Gongcheng Qingdie, she was drained by Gongcheng Tiansheng day and night until they were utterly extinguished.]
After reading the glimpses of the future, Su Li was left with an exceedingly complicated mix of emotions.
From Yun Qingxuan's future, it was easy to tell that neither Yun Yifan nor Hua Yunxiao would have the last laugh.
The next few days would be a vicious game of plotting and betrayal!
It was a battle among immortals!
These records revealed one crucial point: Su Li himself would likely be among the first to be refined to death—and would die a truly horrific death!
Either the ancestor of the Hua Clan would successfully possess him and refine his soul...
Or Yun Yifan would use one of his methods to refine him to death!
Either way, he had almost no chance of surviving!
Unfortunately, Su Li couldn't view other people's Life Archives through someone else's future records.
And because Yun Qingxuan had caused such a massive 'disruption' to the future, the Life Archives of the other people shown in hers were filled with question marks!
Even Mu Yuxi's Life Archive had turned into a mass of question marks, leaving her current information inaccessible.
This was a gigantic whirlpool, and Su Li had been swept into it before he could even brace himself.
Now, escaping would be harder than climbing to heaven.
But there was hope after all—Yun Qingxuan was a woman with immense potential, and she was utterly mad.
Her horrific fate and her frenzied, desperate methods revealed just how terrifying her willpower and resolve were!
Creak—
The door had been pulled open again.
In the moonlight, Yun Qingxuan's departing figure stretched long across the ground.
It was as if, in all the world, only her slender, lonely silhouette remained.
"Fairy Yun, please stay."
Su Li gazed at that beautiful figure and, in the end, called out.
At that moment, he was overcome by the feeling that he was an ant, and his life was no more than a blade of grass.
The graceful figure walking away shuddered slightly, then stopped.
After a long moment, she slowly turned around. A glimmer of starlight, carrying a spark of hope, appeared in her dim, icy eyes.
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