Judgment

In the disciple records, the entry concerning Ye Shunguang's adoption read as follows.

Ye Shunguang, female, six years old, from the Radiant Porcelain mining district of Weifei Land.

After the fall of the Old Capital, Corruptive Breath erupted from Lemnian Hollow. Both her parents died. Ban Yue of Chenghui Plateau entrusted her to Yixuan. Her fate was that of Bai Ze: fortune and calamity intertwined, with one thought leading to paradise and another to the underworld.

Yixuan stared at those lines for a long time.

On paper, there was nothing wrong with them.

The year Ye Shiyuan and Ye Shunguang entered Yunkui Mountain, the siblings became her disciples. Like the other children, they were raised under Elder Lu Hengzhou's care.

It all seemed reasonable. There was no obvious flaw.

So where was the problem? Hadn't Xiaoguang becoming the Azure Nether Swordmaster been an accident?

After her elder sister died, Yixuan had personally sealed the Azure Nether Sword in the sect's forbidden grounds.

Back then, Xiaoguang had supposedly wandered into the forbidden grounds on the back mountain while playing. She accidentally touched the Azure Nether Sword, and it accepted her as its master. Every disciple on Yunkui Mountain knew the story. Even Ye Shiyuan had never suggested anything was amiss.

But now that Yixuan thought it over, a chill crept up her spine.

It was too convenient.

After that calamity, nearly everyone on Yunkui Mountain had been killed or wounded. Only a handful remained, and there were no suitable disciples to test with the sword.

Yet the Azure Nether Sword could not remain masterless for long. Otherwise, its energy would run wild, with unimaginable consequences... At the time, no more than three people on all of Yunkui Mountain knew the details.

And at precisely that critical moment, less than half a