Ye Qingxian Guesses the Source of Junior Sister's Dislike

The distant commotion made me open my eyes.

Just now...

Was someone nearby?

My cultivation wasn't high enough, and my divine sense didn't reach very far, so I naturally didn't know who was around just then.

Ignoring the commotion over there, I lowered my head to look at the mushrooms on the ground.

Red caps and white stems, referring to two different types of poisonous mushrooms.

I'd eaten mushrooms so often that I'd gained experience. It had rained a few days ago, the perfect weather for harvesting mushrooms. I could have a delicious meal when I got home.

"Will Cub like mushrooms?" I tilted my head and pondered.

Whether it likes them or not, it has to. It can only eat the same thing as me anyway.

I casually dug up a few more wild vegetables and happily headed home.

Instead of going to the kitchen, I set up a pot in the yard and started stewing a delicious mushroom soup.

Ye Qingxian returned to Wuya Sect.

She looked up at the Cave Mansion in front of her, only then realizing where she had wandered in her daze.

She shook her muddled head, preparing to leave.

Suddenly, she smelled a fragrance.

Instinctively, I looked up and saw the figure standing outside the door.

Ye Qingxian?

Why was she suddenly looking for me?

I protected my mushroom soup and opened the Restriction on the Cave Mansion, lest this woman claim I didn't open my doors when she visited, and spread slanderous remarks.

Seeing Junior Sister again with her true form, Ye Qingxian's gaze was still a little dazed.

These past few days, she had actually been avoiding Ye Xiaoyao, right?

Because she hadn't figured out what mindset she should use to face Junior Sister.

Besides, Junior Sister didn't want to see her either.

Ye Qingxian had figured it out.

Ye Xiaoyao didn't hate her because of her actions; it was more like she had rejected Ye Qingxian from the bottom of her heart from the very beginning.

"Junior Sister." Ye Qingxian said as calmly as possible.

The situation at the Ye Family a few days ago still left her somewhat unsettled.

I looked at Ye Qingxian's seemingly distant expression, her fair, tender hands hanging by her sides, lightly pinching the corner of her skirt.

I didn't want to see Ye Qingxian getting close to me.

But when she truly became a stranger, there was still a slight complexity in my heart.

After all, she was someone who had once wanted to help me.

I suddenly laughed at myself.

Ye Xiaoyao, why are you so pathetic?

This was the path you chose. You have to walk it, no matter how difficult.

No matter how kind Ye Qingxian is now, she will eventually turn bad.

Moreover, you don't need friends.

I lowered my eyes slightly, not letting others see my gaze. "Senior Sister, is something the matter?"

Silence hung in the air.

Ye Qingxian never imagined that one day she would reach such a desperate point.

She... was speechless.

After a long while, she suddenly asked, "Can you tell me why you've always disliked me?"

This was something she had always wanted to know the answer to.

Ye Qingxian had no expression. Compared to her usual enthusiasm, her attitude seemed even somewhat cold in my understanding.

"There's... no reason." I replied in a deep voice.

The soup in the pot continued to boil, the bubbling sound faintly audible.

Ye Qingxian's lips seemed to curve into a bitter smile, or perhaps it held other emotions. "There's no such thing as something without a reason in this world. I believe I've never harmed you before, and I've always been helping you. You know--I'm not saying you dislike me because I help you; I felt from the start that you didn't like me."

"Therefore, only one possibility remains."

"It's not the present or the past, so is it the future?"

"Do you believe that I will harm you in the future?"

Ye Qingxian's eyes were calm as she simply looked at me.

I was struck as if by lightning.

This woman, known as the Female Protagonist, was far too intelligent.

What was the difference between this and cheating?

If I spoke to her any longer, I suspected she'd even figure out the color of my underwear.

"Who knows what you're talking about? Go, go, go, don't stand at my door, you're bad luck. I'm closing up." I grumbled, more flustered by my secrets being revealed than anything, and directly opened the Restriction.

Ye Qingxian hadn't left yet.

She knew she had hit upon the correct answer.

"Junior Sister, a future that hasn't happened yet, I don't know your reasons for making this judgment, but how can you impose it on me now?"

I stood at the door and shouted back, "Even if you have countless valid points and your logic is flawless, I, Ye Xiaoyao, don't listen to reason and have my own reasons. Furthermore, I hate you and don't want to hear your theories. Goodbye."

What a joke.

Who would dare gamble that I wouldn't be killed in the future?

Unless the Female Protagonist killed the Male Protagonist right in front of me.

Otherwise, whatever this crazy woman said, I'd just think she was trying to lower my guard.

It was just like how desperate criminals are drawn to Russian roulette; who would dare bet their life on a chance of avoiding death?

Ye Qingxian stood at the door for a long time.

Suddenly, she raised her eyes and stared at a certain spot.

That strange feeling again, as if she were the only one outside of the world.

She was staring intently at the highest point of Heavenly Sword Peak.

She had investigated thoroughly upon returning home this time. Ye Xiaoyao's past was spotless; not only did she have no elders who were enemies with Heavenly Sword Venerable, but there was even no possibility of any prior interaction between the two, which meant her previous deduction had a fatal flaw.

Heavenly Sword Venerable already knew of Ye Xiaoyao's existence.

Even...

He knew more about her than she herself knew.

Divination and deduction techniques.

This was the only explanation Ye Qingxian could come up with.

Ye Xiaoyao's words today made her suddenly understand.

Perhaps...

Heavenly Sword Venerable already knew what would happen in the future, knew what Ye Xiaoyao would do in the future, which was why he had repeatedly kept Ye Xiaoyao under his watchful eye.

Then, what about Ye Xiaoyao?

How did she know that she would harm her in the future?

This logic didn't make sense.

Ye Xiaoyao was just an ordinary cultivator, more ordinary than most.

Ye Qingxian firmly believed in the theory of causal loops; there were no effects without causes in this world. Therefore, Ye Xiaoyao must have had a channel to obtain information, and even if it was only a one-time thing, she must have known something about her own future.

Ye Qingxian immediately recalled her own life.

Was there anyone else like this?

Was there anyone with behavior and logic similar to Ye Xiaoyao's?

Someone she had no intersection with in life, a complete stranger for a long time, yet someone whose behavior and logic were abnormal.

Jealousy certainly existed in the world, but it couldn't explain everything. Ye Qingxian naturally had the ability to discern whether that person's instinctive aversion was due to jealousy.

Countless names were rejected one by one.

Heavenly Sword Venerable.

A name gradually surfaced.

Ye Qingxian had always known her own advantage.

She was the foremost Prodigy in the world, and many people would give her face.

Therefore, few people openly opposed her words.

However, Heavenly Sword Venerable was different.

She was an supreme existence, an ultimate realm expert.

Among all the ultimate realm experts, only Heavenly Sword Venerable could be met whenever she wished, and only she always gave her some face.

This was already an unbelievable matter on Heavenly Sword Peak itself.

After all, even the Senior Brother couldn't meet Heavenly Sword Venerable whenever he wanted. The latter didn't even bother to acknowledge the former, and hadn't spoken a single word to him in hundreds of years.

An effect produced without reason must have a predetermined cause.

That was, Heavenly Sword Venerable also knew her future.

Even though this future was one Ye Qingxian did not acknowledge, a future she deemed false.

But.

Under the influence of this outcome, Ye Xiaoyao and the Heavenly Sword Venerable had developed ways of dealing with current events that interfered with Ye Qingxian. This made Ye Qingxian very uncomfortable, as if something outside the world was isolating her discomfort.

Ye Qingxian had never felt such a chill run down her spine.

Immediately following was an unspeakable excitement.

Was there... a future about her?

This world had truly become interesting.

Even a Supreme Realm expert could not deduce the future of others.

She knew at least two people were aware.

Wasn't that enough to excite her?

Another answer, triggered by this, further excited Ye Qingxian.

So then...

Could she go directly to the Heavenly Sword Venerable and, by extension, learn the fundamental reason why Ye Xiaoyao disliked her, or perhaps learn about her own "future"?

Of course, there was another possibility.

The futures known by the two were not the same.

Ye Qingxian's heart already leaned towards them being the same.

The reason was quite simple.

Both had their own recognized futures.

The Heavenly Sword Venerable repeatedly restricted Ye Xiaoyao; the future he knew must include Ye Xiaoyao, and he also knew Ye Qingxian's future.

As for whether the former and the latter were in the same future.

That was yet to be determined.

The future Ye Xiaoyao knew might not include the Heavenly Sword Venerable, but it definitely included her, Ye Qingxian, which was why she always avoided her.

These two people were like two approaching circles.

The intersection of the two circular patterns was precisely her name, Ye Qingxian.

This was the foundation upon which the current events could be established.

If the futures known by the two were not the same, then there would be a fatal flaw in the logic.

Ye Xiaoyao's aversion, and the lingering trace of reverence deep within her bones towards Ye Qingxian, wasn't that fundamentally the same thing as the respect the Heavenly Sword Venerable showed her?

That was to say—she, Ye Qingxian, had always been a special person.

Because she was special, she was treated differently.

Because she was special, people feared her.

Because she was special, so many people developed feelings for her.

The weather seemed to suddenly clear up, with a feeling of a refreshing breakthrough, and Ye Qingxian's mood was excellent at this moment.

Perhaps it was the opportunity for her obsession to end, or perhaps it was something else.

At least, she did not want to see her Junior Sister hate her.

Today.

She had already seen a way to completely resolve the problem.

An opportunity to completely resolve her Junior Sister's inner conflict.

As long as she could find the Heavenly Sword Venerable, or find a way to pry open his mouth and learn what her "future" was, she could then administer the right remedy to resolve the deep-seated contradiction of her Junior Sister's constant dislike.

At this moment, at the highest point of Heavenly Sword Peak.

The Heavenly Sword Venerable was flipping through records concerning Ye Qingxian.

She was from the Time and Space Administration, and of course, she knew the Female Protagonist in the story.

And she also knew that Ye Xiaoyao would later be killed by the Male Protagonist with a single slap.

This did not contradict Ye Xiaoyao becoming the Great Demon King who would destroy the world.

The plot was the plot, and Ye Xiaoyao herself was the only variable in the plot; it was entirely possible for her to cause any change in the plot.

It was precisely this uncertain variable that would gradually accumulate into the final Great Demon King.

The so-called destroyer of the Level Five world, the Heavenly Sword Venerable believed his theory was sound; only mediocrity could limit her development, any other method could not achieve such a perfect result.

Because of the existence of this level, death might not even be her end, but perhaps the starting point of her complete blackening.

No one knew if the Great Demon King could be resurrected.

She, the Heavenly Sword Venerable, dared not gamble with the lives of countless beings.

Therefore, she had saved Ye Xiaoyao's life.

This was another deep-seated reason beyond the rules of the Time and Space Administration.

She indeed could not kill people directly, but offering a borrowed flower, or using someone else's knife to kill, was not restricted.