Hearing Xiao Yi Xian's answer, Xiao Yan's expression turned strange as well.
Sensing Xiao Yan's oddness, Xiao Yi Xian raised her beautiful eyes, slightly red and swollen from crying, and asked, "What is it?"
Xiao Yan smiled and replied, "If that's how things are, then I'll have to bear half of the sins on you."
Under Xiao Yi Xian's astonished gaze, Xiao Yan explained everything in detail: how he had encountered the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame in the desert, how his strength had soared and he had charged up Misty Cloud Sect; how he had wreaked havoc there, forcing Yun Shan, who had been in secluded cultivation, to personally emerge and resolve the matter; and how, due to his insufficient strength at the time, he had suffered a backlash from the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and slaughtered the Mad Wolf Gang within the Jia Ma Empire to dispel it.
"I specifically chose the Mad Wolf Gang back then. First, they had committed countless evils, so there was no fear of killing innocents. Second, they were from the Chuyun Empire, so there was no need to worry about any trouble afterward."
"I charged up Misty Cloud Sect because of the humiliation of the broken engagement. At the time, no one in Misty Cloud Sect was a match for me, so they had no choice but to summon their previous sect leader, Yun Shan, out of seclusion."
"And somehow, by a twist of fate, both of those incidents became triggers for your cultivation to go out of control."
Back then, Xiao Yan had not yet met Ming Mei, so he had naturally not completely turned the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame into his origin flame. To avoid suffering its backlash, he had begun killing people.
Xiao Yan's words greatly eased Xiao Yi Xian's