However, he never heard the answer he wanted. Xue Fuyao slit his throat without hesitation.
Even as he died, his eyes remained fixed on Xue Fuyao in shock, his mouth open as though he wanted to accuse her of breaking her word.
"Senior Sister, do we keep investigating now that we've gotten this far?" Xue Fuyao asked.
She had thought this would be some earth-shattering conspiracy, but it turned out to be a ragtag outfit.
At her words, Gu Nian said, "Of course we keep investigating. If things really are as this man said, that so-called Cult Leader alone shouldn't be capable of shaking the barrier between the Mortal Realm and the Cultivation Realm. There must be something else we don't know."
Xue Fuyao nodded, finding her senior sister's words reasonable.
"Junior Sister, you said earlier that your family left something for you. Was it..." Chu Yunzhe looked at Xue Fuyao, leaving the rest unsaid.
Seeing this, Xue Fuyao nodded and gave a quiet "Mm."
"Then are you going now?" Gu Nian asked.
"I originally wanted to find a time to go quietly, but now..."
"If you want to go, go. Yunzhe and I are here."
Gu Nian did not offer to go with Xue Fuyao.
She knew that since her junior sister had not brought this matter up with them before, it meant she did not want them to know.
Gu Nian saw nothing wrong with this. On the contrary, she understood it very well. After all, not everyone was willing to show their wounds to everyone else.
Even now, Gu Nian remembered the first time she saw Xue Fuyao: such a tiny little figure, standing alone on a rooftop, looking at her aboard the Spirit Boat with eyes that gleamed like stars. At once, she had been unable