Within the barrier, fleeting light shimmered beneath a brilliant starry sky. Qian Renyue stared at Green Vine before her for a long time, but still received no answer to her final question. As Green Vine gazed at Qian Renyue, an unusual gleam passed through her eyes, as though she were looking through her at someone else. "You're very clever, young miss."
She said with relief, "You've probably already guessed what I'm about to tell you, haven't you, young miss?"
"...Yes."
Qian Renyue answered with darkened eyes and pressed her lips together. Every sign now pointed to the fact that she was the daughter of a soul beast. With her intelligence, how could she possibly not have realized it?
Her mother was Green Vine's Master, that hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year soul beast, the Nine-Petal Immortal Lotus!
But the Nine-Petal Immortal Lotus should have been an extraordinarily powerful being, given her hundred and ninety thousand years of cultivation. Why had she abandoned this body's original owner, leaving her to be picked up by Tang Hao and suffer a string of disasters?
And had the Nine-Petal Immortal Lotus sensed nothing when this body's original owner was hurt? Why had she allowed those soul beasts to harm her?
No matter how she looked at it, none of it seemed to make sense.
As the saying went, even a vicious tiger would not devour its own cubs. Qian Renyue wholeheartedly agreed.
But if that were true, only one explanation remained-
The Nine-Petal Immortal Lotus had perished many years ago.
Only...
Qian Renyue frowned slightly.
The timeline did not add up at all. Surely this body's original mother could not have perished right after giving birth to her?
A hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year soul beast was only one step away from joining the ranks of ferocious beasts. How could she have perished