"But I heard Su Jiu belongs to the Azure Tide Sect, so by rights, you should be a disciple of the Azure Tide Sect too." Yao Yan's gaze held a measure of scrutiny.
At this question, however, Su Qingqing's expression grew somewhat distant.
"I used to be. Now... I suppose I no longer count as one."
She was not unaware of the rumors circulating about her on the Azure Mist Continent. After taking up the uncanny path, she had never returned to her sect, choosing instead to live in seclusion with Meng'er in the Demon-Subduing Land.
Though it could hardly be called a good place, it was the only place that could accommodate her and give her heart some peace.
She knew that if she returned to the Azure Tide Sect, she would receive its protection. Even those who harbored grievances against her would not dare voice them lightly.
Yet she did not want her second elder sister to bear a tarnished name and suffer on her account. At least while the world still insisted that the uncanny path was a crooked, evil way, she could not return to the sect, nor could she let her second elder sister worry over this matter.
She had brought the trouble, so she ought to take it away herself. Even if she had to bear the foul name of traitor, she did not want to implicate anyone else.
An unprecedented silence fell, and Yan slowly pulled herself free of that nauseating sight.
Seeing Su Qingqing and Yao Yan not far away, she rolled her large, slightly alluring eyes and slowly approached them.
"If I wasn't mistaken just now, the attacks you used were arts of the uncanny path. So that's what you cultivate?" A little more interest appeared in Yao Yan's eyes. Clearly,