Ni Yue wished she could gouge out her own eyes and cut off her own ears, pretending that everything she had just seen and heard had never happened.
But now that things had come to this, such thoughts were utterly meaningless.
From the moment she saw that spell formula and did not flee at once, she had already been forcibly dragged aboard by this Senior Brother of hers, bound to the same rope as him.
"Senior Brother, then we... are we also...?"
After hearing what Jun Qian had said and recalling the string of evil deeds she and the others had committed while following their master over the years, Ni Yue's heart tightened involuntarily.
Back then, the eminent monks of Great Awakening Temple had vanished without a trace, and more than half of the Heavenly Sea Domain had been thrown into chaos. Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion had seized that opportunity to rise to power, becoming one of the forces that now ruled over real territories and guarded the domain gates.
Throughout that rise, who knew how many Heavenly Sea cultivators and living beings had become stepping stones for Sea Pavilion's ascent.
The lives that had died by her hand alone would have been enough to fill two or three entire real realms.
"Hehe, of course."
Jun Qian gave her a cold smile, then slowly removed his upper garments. "Some deeds and karmic debts, once done, are done. You cannot simply set a fire afterward and burn them all clean."
The moment she saw the black blotches and hair sprouting across Jun Qian's chest and back, Ni Yue could no longer suppress the terror in her heart. Her body began to tremble violently.
"I don't want this... I don't want to be like this... I don't want..."
She shook her head in