Over time, even though Gu Ningyun had understood nothing back then, she had still taken in some of what she saw.
But she had not yet been old enough to cultivate, so as time passed, those memories had gradually faded.
Now, however, the painting scrolls on these walls had stirred memories that should long since have vanished.
After she parted ways with Su Jiu on Netherworld Mountain, the souls of her grandfather and her kin had never told her the truth behind the Gu Household's massacre. Her grandfather had even repeatedly warned her not to investigate further, reassuring her that being a ghost cultivator was quite good...
But gentle as Gu Ningyun was, she was also a female cultivator with a mind of her own.
She was glad that her family's souls had not all been shattered and scattered, but even so, she could not forgive the culprits behind it all. So she had used the Shadow Pavilion to investigate the whole story.
Back then, the Three Families had still been friends, and they had secretly ventured into Windforest Star River together. After they returned, however, a rift had formed between them.
And now, what Gu Ningyun remembered was precisely the substance of that disagreement.
It turned out that the portraits her grandfather and the others had brought back had come from Windforest Star River. Because her grandfather felt that the portraits were far too sinister, he had refused to let the others use them and insisted on destroying them. For that, his two partners had silenced him.
Afterward, wanting to test the power of their newly acquired portraits, they had turned every member of the Gu Household into a test subject!
Gu Ningyun kept recalling the portraits she had seen in her grandfather's hands, as well as those that