After she finished examining the two people's memories, Xue Fuyao could not help clicking her tongue.
She had initially felt a little sorry for them, seeing how badly they were injured. Now, though, it was clear they had brought it entirely upon themselves.
From their memories, she learned that the marriage alliance between the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Blazing Sun Holy Land had been a conspiracy from the outset. The Heavenly Sword Sect's Sect Master had long coveted the Blazing Sun Holy Land's supreme treasure, that Heart-Guarding Scale.
The Heavenly Sword Sect had been going downhill for years, and its Sect Master and elders wanted to escape this predicament.
They had inadvertently learned that the Blazing Sun Holy Land's supreme treasure was a Heart-Guarding Scale left behind by a Pureblood Fire Dragon. That gave them the idea of using it to forge an unparalleled divine weapon.
However, the Blazing Sun Holy Land obviously could not possibly be willing to hand its supreme treasure over to them, not even if they offered a marriage alliance. Since an open approach would not work, they prepared to act in secret.
They secretly had Shen Qianqian contact Thousand-Faced, offering a hefty reward for help stealing the Heart-Guarding Scale. They promised Thousand-Faced half of the scale once the job was done.
That was the agreement Shen Qianqian had reached with Thousand-Faced. In reality, however, the Heavenly Sword Sect had already prepared to kill Thousand-Faced and seize the treasure as soon as the theft succeeded.
"So that was it. In my previous life, the Heart-Guarding Scale must have ended up with the Heavenly Sword Sect."
Xue Fuyao thought back carefully. In her previous life, it seemed that shortly after the Blazing Sun Holy Land's Heart-Guarding Scale was stolen, a Semi-Divine Weapon had suddenly emerged within