Mu Yuxi's Heart, Fang Yueheng's Mother Dies

"Master Su, from the first day I met you and came into contact with you, Yu Xi knew that you must possess a special talent, something akin to telepathy.

But since this was probably one of your secrets, Master Su, Yu Xi pretended not to know and never let it slip.

Yu Xi never expected things to develop this way.

But rest assured, Master Su. Yu Xi will do everything in her power to help you escape this crisis.

Master Su, you were very likely targeted by Mystic Master Zhuge and Mystic Master Zhuge. They put on a little love drama to deliberately deceive you.

Yu Xi isn't one to gossip behind people's backs, but she sees Mystic Master Zhuge's character very clearly.

Yu Xi's family was killed by Mystic Master Zhuge and those special figures from the Hua Clan.

Yu Xi knew all this before Senior Hua found out.

After observing for a long time, Yu Xi believes that you accidentally awakened one of the two souls of Demise—the Heavenly Secrets Soul, also known as the Soul of Demise. It is a cultivator's second soul, and is also a kind of special divine ability, one that grants all sorts of powers.

But abilities involving heavenly secrets and fortune are exceedingly rare and precious. Of course, they are also what other cultivators who truly understand this field most hope to obtain.

Especially since you currently have no strength to match such an ability, Master Su, you're all the more likely to become an object of their greed.

Yu Xi is helping you not only because you have always treated her sincerely.

More importantly, Yu Xi doesn't want them to succeed. If they do, Yu Xi will never have the chance to take revenge."

"Master Su, you must be wondering why a girl who was once innocent and foolish, and is only seventeen, has so many thoughts; why what she thinks inside is so different from how she acts. Aren't you?"

"Because only by being this way can Yu Xi survive. Only by being this way could Yu Xi become sisters with the Saintess—though subconsciously, she has always treated Yu Xi as a servant, never as a younger sister.

When danger strikes, she will be the first to suspect Yu Xi."

"Master Su, do you remember what happened the first time you deduced the Saintess's secret? Her first reaction was to suspect that Yu Xi had teamed up with you to plot against her.

But before that, Yu Xi had risked her life five times to save her.

Once, Yu Xi was nearly blown to pieces!

Without that, do you think Yu Xi could have become a True Disciple, Master Su?

And it isn't just Yu Xi. Which of us True Disciples isn't raised like livestock, destined to become soul food?

The most fundamental reason Yu Xi is still alive is her Mysterious Yin Sacred Body.

That constitution is a treasure to any cultivator.

And when Master Su advised Yu Xi to leave earlier, she couldn't have gone even if she wanted to.

Because the time for the harvest is almost here.

If nothing unexpected happens, Fang Yueheng will be the first, Que Xinyan the second, and Yun Qingxuan, Yun Qinghong, Feng Qianqian, and the others will all be harvested too.

And what will happen to Yu Xi in the end?

Either Mystic Master Zhuge... Forgive Yu Xi. She isn't withholding their names out of respect. It's just that those who cultivate the Way of Heavenly Secrets can sense it when their names are spoken, and know that we are 'mentioning' them at this very moment.

Yu Xi's soul will be suppressed and her seven souls locked away.

She'll be used as a tool for dual cultivation and extraction, then kept under suppression.

It could be one of the older generation of the Zhuge family, one of the younger generation, one of the older generation of the Hua Clan, or even Senior Hua...

It could even be all of them together.

This is certain to happen!

Every time, they'll leave Yu Xi just barely alive, then use spirit medicines to restore her to a semblance of health before continuing to drain her...

That is the value of Yu Xi's life.

A medicine slave, a soul slave!

If the Holy Lord hadn't treated Yu Xi with genuine kindness, she would have tried everything to die and return to the Dao long ago.

But Yu Xi couldn't bear to die like that.

So last time she went out, she deliberately leaked the information to Junior Brother Sun. The Holy Lord brought Junior Brother Sun back too, but he belongs to Imperial Lord Yun.

Master Su, you should know who Junior Brother Sun and Imperial Lord Yun are, right?

Yu Xi's thought was that if she could be accidentally killed by the Puppet Death Warriors, that would be best.

If not, she could be captured by Imperial Lord Yun. The outcome would be the same, but the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right, Master Su?

They want to deal with you now, Master Su, so you're Yu Xi's friend.

As long as we keep them from getting what they want, that's a victory.

And besides, after learning about Yu Xi's constitution, you were the only one whose eyes remained utterly clear. You're also the only person Yu Xi truly respects, admires, and looks up to.

But Yu Xi has too much weighing on her, so she can't stay by your side all the way..."

"I'm sorry, Master Su. Yu Xi can't say these things aloud. You can't be directly divined by them, and formations can't spy on you, but Yu Xi can't avoid either of those things.

Also, Yu Xi can't be completely sure you'll be able to sense all of this clearly. So she's speaking these words slowly in her heart and focusing her mind to make them clearer and more emotionally charged. That way, your 'telepathy' talent, Master Su—the talent of your 'Heavenly Secrets Soul'—should let you sense them more clearly.

Master Su, the most frightening thing on the path of cultivation has never been the treacherous and uncanny, the demons and monsters, the fiends, or the demonic souls. It's the human heart!

Behind every cultivator who sets foot on the path of cultivation lies a mountain of corpses.

So if a calamity strikes and kills ten thousand cultivators, there may indeed be innocent people among them.

But if a disaster kills a hundred cultivators, then not one of them will be innocent!

That is the world of cultivators.

Master Su, if you can hear Yu Xi, just blink.

If you can't hear her, or if what you sense is unclear, then take it as a 'sense of impending danger.'"

Mu Yuxi wore a gentle, faint smile, her large eyes shimmering.

But the thoughts in her heart made Su Li's blood run cold. It was as if he'd plunged into an icy abyss!

So this was the world of cultivators?

It was a complete upheaval of his thoughts and mind!

And Mu Yuxi had repeated those heartfelt words three times in her mind, all while wearing the shy smile of a demure young lady, before they faded away!

Su Li didn't blink. After pondering for a long while, he finally said seriously, "Since Fairy Yu Xi says so, what you think in your heart must be completely different from the way you act, right? My divination shows that your fate has changed dramatically lately, Fairy Yu Xi, and that you're surrounded by danger.

"And there's also... the risk of losing your chastity and being plotted against.

"But there is still a way out. The Soul Suppressing Stele in the Blazing Wasteland is also a sliver of hope."

Su Li thought for a moment, then offered the hint.

Now, he didn't dare trust anyone—not even Mu Yuxi.

So he didn't dare respond to the thoughts in Mu Yuxi's heart.

What if Mu Yuxi was testing whether he had a talent like 'telepathy' and had deliberately said all that?

Mu Yuxi's breath caught slightly, and the smile on her lovely face froze for a moment.

She let out a soft sigh. "Master Su, Yu Xi won't leave. Since she promised to protect you, she will protect you, even if it costs her life."

Su Li nodded. "Then I'll be counting on you, Fairy Yu Xi."

"It's only right. Master Su, please get some rest. Yu Xi will take her leave."

With that, Mu Yuxi bowed, then quietly left the courtyard and stood guard outside.

Ancient pines rose throughout the courtyard, and a little bridge crossed a flowing stream. The scenery was breathtaking.

But to Su Li, this place felt like a hell, an abyss whose depths could not be fathomed.

"The harvest is almost here. Once Fang Yueheng dies, that fuse will be lit."

"Then we'll see how much Heavenly Secrets Value I can harvest."

"Once I harvest enough Heavenly Secrets Value, the Life Archive System can refresh the future and show me how things change. I can't trust the present, but can the future still lie to me?"

"The key is that there's hope of buying a Latent Dragon Pill—but I'm worried my Heavenly Secrets Value might suddenly exceed 100,000 and trigger an automatic upgrade!"

"If it upgrades automatically, I'll be even more passive. If I have any Heavenly Secrets Value left then, I'll have to give up on the Latent Dragon Pill..."

"An automatic upgrade might unlock a new skill. I wonder whether a new skill could help me deal with the predicament I'm in."

Su Li was calm now.

With this method of harvesting Heavenly Secrets Value, he had spent a great deal earlier. So when he harvested again, he might reap a huge windfall.

And if he gained a huge amount of Heavenly Secrets Value, he could very well exceed the 100,000-point threshold for an automatic upgrade.

There were all sorts of uncertainties hidden in this.

"If I can get through this round, I'll have to be extremely cautious from now on! And somehow, I've exposed some of my secrets. That's a cardinal sin!"

"If possible, I'll kill everyone who knows my secrets! Then I'll find a way to create a powerful 'Master' for myself."

"Otherwise, I won't survive in this world!"

"I used to think transmigrators were bound to thrive, living carefree lives every day. I thought that once they showed off a few mysterious abilities, a crowd of big shots would kneel and kowtow, bowing down to them.

"Now I understand just how cruel the world of cultivators is!

"Even ordinary people aren't fools!

"Let alone those old monsters who've lived for decades, centuries, millennia, or even tens of millennia?"

"In a world like this, if I don't tread on thin ice and watch my step, my end will be absolutely miserable!"

"No. Not 'will be.' It's certain!"

Su Li felt weighed down with worry!

In both his past life and this one, he'd been a grinning, shameless, carefree sort of person, but with his personality as things stood, he was practically asking to die!

Su Li took a deep breath, returned to his room, sat cross-legged on the bed, and brought up Mu Yuxi's Life Archive.

Mu Yuxi gazed quietly at Su Li's courtyard. A trace of loneliness appeared on her lovely face.

After a while, she silently took out a jade slip and wrote on it in mysterious runes: "Senior Mystic Master Zhuge, Yu Xi has confirmed that what Master Su awakened was not the Heavenly Secrets Soul among the souls of Demise, and that he doesn't have the talent for telepathy.

"His telepathic ability is weak. It's merely the result of a mutated soul combined with that powerful inheritance of divination.

"Furthermore, it seems there's a strict limit on how many times he can use this ability. But I don't know exactly what the restriction is."

As she spoke, she raised a hand and condensed a projection of light, sending it into the jade slip. Then, using runes, she continued: "This is a complete recording of Yu Xi's test. Please take a look, Mystic Master. Yu Xi is willing to cooperate. Yu Xi will do anything! Please, Mystic Master, help Yu Xi take revenge and kill the ancestor of the Hua Clan."

Then, using a special series of hand seals, she transmitted the information on the jade talisman.

After that, she looked deeply at Su Li's courtyard once more, closed her eyes, and thought, "Master Su, Yu Xi knows you suspect her now, but she will never betray you. Yu Xi despises that kind of person, so she will never become one!"

"This time, Mystic Master Zhuge wanted to use Yu Xi, so he told her part of the truth and assigned her a task... Yu Xi went along with it and gave him a false answer."

"But that answer probably won't fool him for long, because Mystic Master Zhuge never fully trusted Yu Xi in the first place."

"Of course, for now, Yu Xi truly has no reason or benefit to pledge loyalty to you, Master Su, so he'll still believe her for the time being."

"Master Su, if we want to escape this calamity, we have to act soon."

Su Li shut down the Life Archive System and tore out a handful of hair.

At that moment, he even wanted to slam his head against the table beside him a few times.

Because he could no longer tell whether Mu Yuxi's every move was real or fake.

The intelligence of these cultivators was simply terrifying.

And Mu Yuxi was only seventeen!

At seventeen, she already had such cunning and schemes?

A spy within a spy?

Or was she truly sincere?

Su Li silently took out the Nine Night Spirit Sunflower Cold Stem and divined for Mu Yuxi again.

The Trigram Symbol was the Heaven and Earth Hexagram Pi, as always.

Then he divined for himself.

The Trigram Symbol was also the Lake Wind Hexagram Da Guo, as always.

The Great Exceeding Hexagram was the seventh position in the Zhen Palace. It represented committing a grave error and was extremely inauspicious, with nothing going smoothly.

Those who received this hexagram would be restless in body and mind, and things would not go their way. They should not force anything, or they would deeply regret it!

Su Li had thought he could change this hexagram; after all, changing a hexagram wasn't particularly difficult for someone with his abilities.

But whether he changed it to the Lake Earth Hexagram Cui or the Heaven Wind Hexagram Gou, he couldn't make it happen.

As for changing it to the Lake Heaven Hexagram Guai, Su Li's divination showed a sliver of hope.

The Lake Heaven Hexagram Guai was the sixth position in the Kun Palace. Guai meant 'decision' or 'absence'; it was a hexagram describing a state.

The meaning of this changed hexagram was: different things had different fortunes, and nothing should be delayed. Once a decision had been made, it should be carried out immediately and decisively!

But there was no way to see the outcome of this course of action—and though the outcome was invisible here, the Great Exceeding Hexagram showed that it would be devastating!

In other words, this was pretty much a dead end!

"Now all I can do is wait for things to blow up with Fang Yueheng! Fang Yueheng, I beg you, don't believe my divination. That way, you can die even more horribly! And I won't have to feel guilty!"

Su Li thought to himself.

Just then, he thought of Yun Qingxuan, but immediately gave up on the idea. He no longer expected anything from that woman.

Right now, he couldn't rely on anyone. He could only rely on himself and the system.

At noon.

The lake rippled beneath the autumn sun, while purple water chestnuts shone like brocade and colorful phoenixes soared.

Fang Yueheng stood on his flying sword above Lishui Lake in Wanli Holy Land, sensing the wondrous nature of water-attribute spiritual energy.

"Maybe after a little more time, I'll awaken the constitution of a Water Spirit Body."

"Looks like Master Su's divination was wrong after all. Half an hour has passed, and the Wei hour has come and gone, yet no one has sent word!"

"Ordinary people who get a little lucky and let it go to their heads are simply no good. Besides, with Mystic Master Zhuge here, how could Wanli Holy Land be in danger?"

"I don't know much about heavenly secrets, Fang Yueheng, but I know that when a Heavenly Secrets Master clearly states the future, that future is no longer the one they divined before."

"If he doesn't even understand the basics, this Master Su is truly a laughingstock!"

Fang Yueheng shook his head and smiled, then sheathed his sword and landed on the water's surface. He turned and strode across the waves.

Suddenly, he stopped. The sunny smile on his face froze slightly.

Then he took out his Communication Jade Talisman and looked at it.

The message on the talisman was from his father.

"Yueheng, come back to the family at once! Your mother—your mother was beaten to death by the Liu family!!!"

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