After seeing off Jiang Lihan and Yun Zichong, Cai Qin watched Yun Zichong's slightly bent figure vanish into midair. Without turning back, she said coldly, "You have truly made up your mind? This... since it has come to this, why was there ever a beginning?"
"Master, a person must have a single thought to follow. Without clinging to that thought, one's life would pass in vain! Since this disciple has such an obsession, then... I will carry this thought through to the end!" Now that Fairy Hongxia had made her decision, she spoke with great calm. "Since it is thus, there was then!!!"
"Hehe~ How lamentable, how laughable!" Cai Qin sneered. "When this old woman left the Cai Family back then, was I not the same? At that time, Xiao Hongyue of Shang Hua Ming naturally knew as well, but when this old woman's cultivation could no longer advance afterward, what did he do? Was he not still helpless? And you are even worse. Having made such a decision while so far from the Thunder Control Sect, your punishment absolutely will not spread beyond the Huanhua Sect. That little thief called Xiao Hua likely... will not learn of it within twenty years! Twenty years! Though cultivation knows no passage of years, the world changes from vast seas into mulberry fields far too quickly. How can you know how another person's heart may change? Even if you survive nine deaths and one life and emerge from Hanfeng Valley, what kind of person will Xiao Hua have become? How will he know of the suffering you have endured?"
Fairy Hongxia bit her lips tightly, staring straight at the ground without uttering a single word.
"Though Yun Zichong may not be to your liking, since matters have already reached such a point, in