The next day she sat in the carriage with Jinxiao. They were going to mount Liaoyang to see weather all the spirits were right or not. While going to the mountain Jinxiao out of nowhere said "Don't you feel anything strange?" "No? is it like demonic power or something?" "No, it is clearly something more…strange. It was cultivational power but it is strange." Jinxiao said. It was true that Xiaoyan also sensed some powers but she eventually dismissed it as the normal spirit presence power. As when a spirit is near by a specific type of power or energy is released and it was occasionally sensed by cultivators here and there. Xiaoyan sighed and said "Well, it must be the spirit energy." "No…I think it is not but it can also be it." Said Jinxiao he was pretty sure that it was some thing strange but also dismissed the thought after Xiaoyan persisted that it must be either his illusion or just spirit energy that he was sensing.
After they reached mountain. It becomes even stranger. There were no spirits there in the footpath! There was definitely something peculiar as in the years that they have spent in the mountain with the spirits and everything there was only a chance of 1% of the foot path being empty as the foot path was like the spirits' favourite spot. Either some spirits will be chatting or they will be racing or something but definitely there was no time that they were none of the spirits there. When they walked a little higher, they saw a spirit injured. It was a bird spirits. It's one of the wigs was cut down and the other was bleeding. Jinxiao took it and said to Xiaoyan "Some one has came and injured the spirits!" Hearing that a cold blood flowed through Xiaoyan and she immediately rushed forwards.
As she got higher and higher the more the dead body and some injured body of the spirits were found. Well, they were not exactly dead but their energy core which was like a soul of a human was shatter. Xiaoyan took a deep breath in and summoned her cultivation whip that she actually used against her father and all the other and fled on the top.
There the person was. The same figure which was there when she fainted in the market. The same figure which stabbed her there. It was her cousin! When her cousin saw her, she took few steps back and summoned a dragger. It emanated a purple light which was demonic aura. Her eyes became darker and bloodier when Xiaoyan landed there. Her cousin took more step back and really at some point looking scared. Xiaoyan took a deep breath again and released it before she launched like a rocket and sliced her cousin in half. The blood flowed through the body and Xiaoyan bend down on her knees.
It was actually her first time slicing some one and she couldn't believe herself she did it without a second thought. But at the same time, she thought how her cousin who she was close with when she was ten hurt the poor spirits who had only one roof to live in. Who each of the spirit struggled with their life before they eventually found a place to chat. And even there their life was unsafe. They were still killed by one of their lord enemies and didn't even have time to see the lord and say good bye. It was truly tragic and she herself could only blame her self for it. She should have not left the mountain when she woke up from the 2 years cultivation. Or she could have just stayed here for more time. Xiaoyan's eyes was teary when Jinxiao came. He also had a very sad expression. Well, he was the saddest as he spent even more time with the spirit then Xiaoyan ever did.
Jinxiao sighed. Trying to comfort himself in his mind when he saw something strange in her cousin's body. He put some spirits down in a soft rock who were in his arms and walked toward the dead body. While Xiaoyan was silently crying. Jinxiao examinate the dead body and yes there was something suspicious about the body. On her neck of the neck to the spine. There was a tattoo. It was like a pattern. Jinxiao felt like he had seen it somewhere. He didn't know where. But some in the mist of his memories.
He after few moments of staring called Xiaoyan in a low voice "Xiaoyan can you please come here." Xiaoyan wiped her tears off with her sleeves few times and stud up with a cold expression. She walked towards where the dead body lye. She froze. As she bends over to see the tattoo more closely Jinxiao asked "Have you seen this tattoo before?" "Yes…Somewhere." "I have also…Somewhere." They locked eyes as both of them nodded at each other.