Heart-Slaying

The reason this woman in white had been able to infiltrate the Heavenly Sword Sect without anyone noticing was, on one hand, that no one knew she was a grass spirit flower demoness. On the other, she had already resolved to die and had long prepared to stake her life against another's. Ye Tian even suspected that, after killing him to avenge her Lin Lang, she had never once considered how she would leave the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Her final words had likely come straight from her heart, voicing her truest intent. Her Lin Lang was dead; there was no joy in living on alone. After taking her revenge, she only wished to descend beneath the Yellow Springs and cling to Lin Lang's wandering soul unto death, becoming a pair of wild ghost mandarin ducks.

Although Ye Tian did not know what entanglements and bonds existed between her and Lin Lang to make her love so deeply, when Number Nine had shown him this scene earlier, the Lin Lang slain by the previous owner of Number Twenty's dead-tree-bark mask had been no grass spirit flower demoness. He had been, beyond all doubt, a direct disciple of some sect in the Third Heaven.

Would a direct disciple of such a sect truly be willing to become Dao Companions with a grass spirit flower demoness and advance hand in hand with her?

Given Ye Tian's understanding of the disciples and inner workings of the various sects in the Third Heaven, he felt that possibility was truly slim.

Ye Tian only suspected that either the cultivator called Lin Lang had not known the woman in white's true identity, or he had known and deliberately exploited it, using affection as a tether to bind this grass spirit flower demoness for his own use. These