"So the person who was actually assassinated was your younger sister, Miss Nanxing?"
After hearing Gongshu Nanxing recount the entire assassination, both Elder Zhang and Xu Taiping looked enlightened.
Gongshu Nanxing nodded weakly.
"We were twin sisters. Apart from our parents, outsiders could hardly tell us apart. Precisely because my younger sister knew this, she deliberately exposed her location to lure out that demon seed. By the time I found out, it was already too late."
Her voice was filled with self-reproach.
For a time, both Elder Zhang and Xu Taiping fell silent.
Neither knew how to comfort Gongshu Nanxing.
"Little Nanxing, don't grieve too much. When cultivators in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower die at the hands of demonic beasts, their divine souls are taken into the tower. They spend a happy stretch of years within it before being reincarnated."
Elder Zhang gently patted Gongshu Nanxing's shoulder, offering these words of comfort in an exceedingly gentle voice.
Xu Taiping had learned a little about what Elder Zhang described from the intelligence Ye Chensha had sent him a few days earlier.
For instance, on the fourth floor of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, where they were headed next, almost all the people in the kingdom called the Ningyuan Kingdom were formed from the souls of commoners who had originally perished in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
According to some accounts in the intelligence, this might have been an instinctive act of compassion by the divine will Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland had left in the tower, after it sensed the suffering of the people of Mysterious Wasteland Heaven.
Of course, this was merely speculation.
After all, the Mysterious Wasteland Tower could not interfere in the mortal affairs of Mysterious Wasteland Heaven. That was an ironclad rule established by Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland.
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