Shen Huai'an stared at that all-too-familiar face before him, and a tempestuous storm rose in his mind.
"No... This is impossible!"
Shen Huai'an staggered backward, the violence and killing intent in his eyes vanishing without a trace, leaving only absurdity and wavering disbelief.
"Sister Yueli... You were just a mortal without a Root Bone!"
"A mortal could live no more than a hundred years... Hundreds of years have passed. How... how could you possibly still be alive?!"
He muttered to himself, shaking his head repeatedly as he tried to deny the reality before him.
"Fake... It must be fake! You only look like her! Sister Yueli had long since died of old age and illness. She died long ago!"
Seeing Shen Huai'an's utterly dazed appearance, a mocking smile curled at the corner of Su Yueli's lips.
"We haven't met for hundreds of years, and the first thing you do now is curse me to death?"
Su Yueli's voice was cold and clear, her gaze stabbing straight into the depths of Shen Huai'an's soul. "Shen Huai'an, when you entered the immortal sect back then, and the Azure Moon Sect severed your Mortal Ties, did you truly know what was happening?"
"Severing Mortal Ties?"
Shen Huai'an froze, his eyes clouded with confusion. "What Severing Mortal Ties? What are you talking about?!"
"Looks like you really didn't know. Or are you pretending to be crazy and stupid in front of me?"
Su Yueli took a step forward, the blood and qi around her faintly surging. "Your elder brother, Shen Qing'an, froze to death in a ruined temple in Fengling City back then. The village where we once lived was slaughtered to the last person by the Azure Moon Sect. To protect me from being caught up in this so-called Severing Mortal Ties, my